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Posted by prox, from Charlotte, on October 13, 2008 at 19:45 local (server) time

To my pleasant surprise, Joker supports the addition of IPv6 glue records through their web interface.  It only took a few minutes, too:

% dig @a.gtld-servers.net. ns2.antiderivative.net. AAAA       

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> @a.gtld-servers.net. ns2.antiderivative.net. AAAA
; (2 servers found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 55089
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 4
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns2.antiderivative.net.                IN      AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ns2.antiderivative.net. 172800  IN      AAAA    2001:4830:122d:4::f

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
antiderivative.net.     172800  IN      NS      ns2.antiderivative.net.
antiderivative.net.     172800  IN      NS      ns3.antiderivative.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns2.antiderivative.net. 172800  IN      A       69.9.186.232
ns2.antiderivative.net. 172800  IN      AAAA    2001:4830:122d:4::f
ns3.antiderivative.net. 172800  IN      A       207.150.167.81
ns3.antiderivative.net. 172800  IN      AAAA    2001:4830:122d:4::17

;; Query time: 85 msec
;; SERVER: 2001:503:a83e::2:30#53(2001:503:a83e::2:30)
;; WHEN: Mon Oct 13 19:42:55 2008
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 188

It only took a few small additions to pf.conf and named.conf to get ns2 and ns3 answering, too!

Yay!

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