<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Hey Robert,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Yes, the advice was not quite right. dig -x takes an address as an argument, not a name. There's a manual page which presumably isn't installed if you're using Linux, since who needs manual pages. You don't need to specify the QTYPE with -x since it sets it to PTR for you; to get the IPv6 address you need to specify QTYPE=AAAA since otherwise dig defaults to A.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>dig @resolver <a href="http://robert-chalmers.uk" class="">robert-chalmers.uk</a> AAAA</div><div><br class=""></div><div>should answer with your IPv6 address, if there is one, and</div><div><br class=""></div><div>dig -x @resolver 2a02:...(etc)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>should answer with the name, if there is one</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Joe</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 18 Dec 2018, at 04:25, Robert Chalmers via Unbound-users <<a href="mailto:unbound-users@nlnetlabs.nl" class="">unbound-users@nlnetlabs.nl</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks, but nope, all I get back is the ipv4 address. </div><div class="">So I’m doing something wrong.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">robert</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 18 Dec 2018, at 08:33, A. Schulze via Unbound-users <<a href="mailto:unbound-users@nlnetlabs.nl" class="">unbound-users@nlnetlabs.nl</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Robert Chalmers via Unbound-users:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">So I’m pretty sure I’ve set this up right, but how do I check?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">$ dig -x @resolver <a href="http://robert-chalmers.uk/" class="">robert-chalmers.uk</a><br class="">shoud answer with your IPv6<br class="">or<br class="">$ dig @resolver 1.9.e.f.6.4.e.c.2.6.4.e.9.6.0.c.0.0.b.8.5.8.a.3.f.7.c.0.2.0.a.2.ip6.arpa. ptr<br class="">should answer with the name<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Robert Chalmers<br class=""><a href="https://robert-chalmers.uk/" class="">https://robert-chalmers.uk</a><br class=""><a href="mailto:author@robert-chalmers.uk" class="">author@robert-chalmers.uk</a><br class="">@R_A_Chalmers</div></div>
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