Native IPv6 Problem - no DNS query when using firefox

**sammol** · 08-02-2011

I am a newbie of IPv6 and I am setting up a Linux apache and bind server to test the behaviour of Windows XP,Vista, 7 and Mac OS X.

I have setup a apache and bind already and they were tested individually. I used Firefox and IE to access the apache page by type in the IPv6 address and the page was showed correctly. And I have tried to query the AAAA record of a local zone "testing.com" in my Bind server using nslookup and the result is good too.

However, it is strange that I cannot get it work if I type in the FQDN "http://testing.com" in Firefox and IE. I tried to capture the IPv6 traffic in Wireshark (Attached in this post) and there are no DNS query when I try to access the page. Is there anything that I have to set to get it work properly?

Below is my Windows 7 network setting and some nslookup query:

C:\Users\vmware>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : vmware-PC
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Network Connection
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-29-96-8B-66
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::20c:29ff:fedc:2002%11(Preferred)
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::3476:d553:9f0:9180%11(Preferred)
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 234884137
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-14-E1-75-C3-00-0C-29-96-8B-66

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::20c:29ff:fe57:29e7%11
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

C:\Users\vmware>nslookup
Default Server: UnKnown
Address: fe80::20c:29ff:fe57:29e7

> testing.com
Server: UnKnown
Address: fe80::20c:29ff:fe57:29e7

Name: testing.com
Address: fe80::20c:29ff:fe57:29e7

> testing.com
Server: UnKnown
Address: fe80::20c:29ff:fe57:29e7

Name: testing.com
Address: fe80::20c:29ff:fedc:2aa2

> exit

C:\Users\vmware>

**Connect_Me** · 09-02-2011

I would like to tell you that unless you are having the router which is able to manage the ip6 then it is not going to work with it. There are not a lot of ip6 routers out there which can manage the ip6 and most ISP does not use them also. I hope that you will get some idea regarding the issue from this post. Thank you.