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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: BIND 9 on |Bullseye & RASPIOS
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 08:22:07 +0000
Organization: A little, after lunch
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Trying to set up a Pi as local network server including local DNS 
elicited a problem.

It didn't always work *at all*. Or sometimes it did.
The problem proved to be it trying to use IPV6 which I don't have 
configured.

IN order to stop it trying to contact DNS servers on IPV6, the final 
solution (after having tried every other alternative: The reason for 
posting here is so that someone somewhere will find this and not have to 
do the same) was to place this magic spell in

  /etc/bind/named.conf.local

// disable lookup over IPv6
server ::/0 {
         bogus yes;
};

That cleared up a slew of shit from the logfiles. It may not be the most 
elegant solution but it has JustWorked.

One logfile entry remained and that was down to an out of date 
/etc/bind/db.root in the installation package.

The up to date version is at

https://www.internic.net/domain/named.root



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