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      ebcdic
      last edited by ebcdic

      (Running 23.01 on an SG-1100)

      I am running a DNS resolver on the router; clients get both its IPv4 and IPv6 addresses as DNS servers. If I look up a name with nslookup, I get this:

      $ nslookup google.com
      ;; Got recursion not available from <IPv6 address>, trying next server
      Server: <IPv4 address>
      Address: <IPv4 address>#53

      Non-authoritative answer:
      Name: google.com
      Address: 142.250.187.238

      Is this expected? I've restarted the DNS server with no change.

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        Are your IPv6 addresses dynamic or static?

        If you look in /var/unbound/access_lists.conf does it list your IPv6 networks?

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          If it's what I think it is, it might be https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13851.

          You can install the System Patches package and then create an entry for 46b159032fef8c78783aa1a749d2238cfed7ac0d to apply the fix.

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            ebcdic @jimp
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            @jimp said in Recursion not available:

            If it's what I think it is, it might be https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13851.

            You can install the System Patches package and then create an entry for 46b159032fef8c78783aa1a749d2238cfed7ac0d to apply the fix.

            Bingo! Lookups now succeed over IPv6.

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              ebcdic @ebcdic
              last edited by

              A minor point - presumably it's also a bug in something that the error from nslookup is "recursion not available" rather than "connection refused".

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