[Xymon] www.xymon.com now available via IPv6

[Josh Luthman]

C:\Users\jluthman>host www.xymon.com
www.xymon.com has address 90.184.111.80
www.xymon.com has IPv6 address 2001:16d8:dda8:0:21c:c0ff:fec0:1875

Using 208.67.222.222

C:\Users\jluthman>dig -t AAAA www.xymon.com @4.2.2.2 +short
2001:16d8:dda8:0:21c:c0ff:fec0:1875

I can't reproduce your guys' problem here.

Josh Luthman
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On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> On 08-11-2011 14:35, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
>>
>> Not to be a wet blanket,
>
> Not at all, I'd rather know about these problems.
>
>> but DNS is mildly hosed.
>>
>> ping xymon.com
>> PING xymon.com (90.184.111.80) 56(84) bytes of data.
>
> that's my firewall dropping your ping. DNS is ok here...
>
>> ping www.xymon.com
>> ping: unknown host www.xymon.com
>
> but not here.
>
> I think I've got it fixed now, but it may take 12 hours for the change to
> propagate out (DNS caching and all).
>
> It's weird. I had
> * an A record for xymon.com = 90.184.111.80
> * an AAAA record for xymon.com = 2001:16d8:dda8:0:21c:c0ff:fec0:1875
> * a CNAME for *.xymon.com = xymon.com
> and that apparently breaks.
>
> Even weirder, if I do a "dig www.xymon.com" I get an error (so that matches
> your experience). But if I do a "dig +trace www.xymon.com" it finds the IPv4
> address just fine.
>
> I think the wildcard CNAME is the culprit, but I am not quite sure why.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
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