Re: [squid-users] trouble with www address not resolving

 On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 10:54:29 -0500, William Bakken wrote:
>>* Site-specific to allow access to all the working v6-only sites (1%
>> of the Internet now).
>
> I am a little foggy on the details of how this is done. Could you
> explain the steps I need to take.

 Sorry I wasn't clear. That was just a list of the reasons why the
 method Eliezer outlined is better.

 Amos

>
> Thanks
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
> wrote:
>>> On 03/06/2011 19:24, William Bakken wrote:
>>>
>>>> Amos, is there a way to tell Squid to stop asking for AAAA
>>>> records/IPv6?
>>>> We are having problems with other sites not working in the same
>>>> way.
>>>>
>> On 04/06/11 16:37, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
>>>
>>> The answer is to disable IPV6 on squid and on the linux machine and
>>> software.
>>>
>>> but we do not know that this is the case..
>>
>> Correct. If you have IPv6 _properly_ disabled in the OS. Such that
>> applications attempting to open IPv6 sockets for use get denied.
>> Squid
>> 3.1.10+ will pick that up next restart and not try to perform IPv6
>> again
>> until next restart.
>>
>> There is the small matter of a lot of garbage tutorials about how to
>> disable
>> IPv6 in the OS though. It has to be done in a way where a program
>> opening a
>> IPv6 socket gets an error message back.
>>  Not letting the app open and use the socket, (spewing errors out
>> all over
>> the place) or to hanging (frowning mostly at some RHEL user blogs
>> there).
>>
>>
>> Re-building Squid with --disable-ipv6 is another more extreme
>> option.
>>
>>>
>>> do you have a local DNS server on the machine for caching and
>>> forwarding?
>>>
>>> you can setup on the squid to use the local dns server and on the
>>> dns
>>> server setup specific forwarding zone for this domain NS
>>>
>>> this will result a much more efficient way to get it done and to
>>> make
>>> your system more reliable by any case.
>>
>> I recommend this way.
>>  * Site-specific to allow access to all the working v6-only sites
>> (1% of the
>> Internet now).
>>  * Easily reversible once the site starts working.
>>
>>
>> Best best way is to get the site fixed ASAP. From the other post by
>> Rick
>> from Carfax it looks like they are on the issue now.
>>
>> Amos
>> --
>> Please be using
>>  Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.12
>>  Beta testers wanted for 3.2.0.8 and 3.1.12.2
>>
Received on Tue Jun 07 2011 - 00:26:45 MDT