Re: SRV vs AAAA records

"Peter Millard" <me-STcBuFROdrv2eFz/[email protected]> Mon, 2 May 2005 08:27:49 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.network.jabber.exodus.user
Message-ID <001f01c54f23$1e696340$e201020a@pmillard2k>
Stephen Borrill wrote:
> When I attempt to connect using Exodus to domainname, it does the SRV
> lookup correctly, but instead of looking up an A record for the server it
> only looks up AAAA and A6 records. It gets a name non-existent error
> (as I don't have them set up) and then does an A lookup on the domainname.
> This is a different IP address and so it fails.
>
> Why is it skipping the A lookup?

It shouldn't ever. As far as a I know, there is now ipv6 code in the resolver
lib that I'm using. Are you sure your DNS server is setup correctly? I could
help debug if you can provide me the "real" domain name in question and check to
see what "dig" from linux gives me.

pgm.