When trying to access http://www.vkontakte.ru/, I'm getting an error: Connection to 2a00:bdc0:3:103:1:0:403:900 failed. (101) Network is unreachable The access.log shows: 1355919201.762 6 141.42.231.227 TCP_MISS/503 4480 GET http://www.vkontakte.ru/ - HIER_DIRECT/2a00:bdc0:3:103:1:0:403:909 text/html # dig @127.0.0.1 A www.vkontakte.ru ; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> @127.0.0.1 A www.vkontakte.ru ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21409 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.vkontakte.ru. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.vkontakte.ru. 449 IN A 87.240.188.252 www.vkontakte.ru. 449 IN A 87.240.188.254 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: vkontakte.ru. 8448 IN NS ns2.vkontakte.ru. vkontakte.ru. 8448 IN NS ns4.vkontakte.ru. vkontakte.ru. 8448 IN NS ns3.vkontakte.ru. Asking for AAAA yields: ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.vkontakte.ru. 3876 IN AAAA 2a00:bdc0:3:103:1:0:403:909 www.vkontakte.ru. 3876 IN AAAA 2a00:bdc0:3:103:1:0:403:900 www.vkontakte.ru. 3876 IN AAAA 2a00:bdc0:3:103:1:0:403:901 www.vkontakte.ru. 3876 IN AAAA 2a00:bdc0:3:103:1:0:403:902 www.vkontakte.ru. 3876 IN AAAA 2a00:bdc0:3:103:1:0:403:903 www.vkontakte.ru. 3876 IN AAAA 2a00:bdc0:3:103:1:0:403:904 www.vkontakte.ru. 3876 IN AAAA 2a00:bdc0:3:103:1:0:403:905 www.vkontakte.ru. 3876 IN AAAA 2a00:bdc0:3:103:1:0:403:906 www.vkontakte.ru. 3876 IN AAAA 2a00:bdc0:3:103:1:0:403:907 www.vkontakte.ru. 3876 IN AAAA 2a00:bdc0:3:103:1:0:403:908 But why is it using ipv6 here? When accessing http://www.arschkrebs.de/ which ALSO has both A and AAAA records, it happily uses the A record?! -- Ralf Hildebrandt Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin ralf.hildebrandt@xxxxxxxxxx Campus Benjamin Franklin http://www.charite.de Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin Geschäftsbereich IT, Abt. Netzwerk fon: +49-30-450.570.155
