IPV6 Help

tictacs

Hi,

Thanks first for the site, been using it for a year or so and has been really helpful.

I have a box with a few IPV6 IPs and I have a DNS provider where I can add AAAA records. On the VM the IPV6 addresses are configured like so:

iface venet0 inet6 manual
up ifconfig venet0 add 2001:1b50:4000:3::59e7:ac19/128
down ifconfig venet0 del 2001:1b50:4000:3::59e7:ac19/128

But as an IPV6 address is 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 then how do I transform what is in my network config to slap into the AAAA record in my DNS?

Cheers,

tictacs

Ellimist

This is the IP address : 2001:1b50:4000:3::59e7:ac19. You can use it as an AAAA record.

The /128 simply means that all the leading 128 bits are the host id portion of the address.

:: is basically :0000:0000: and : is :0003:.

tictacs

Thanks Ellimist - much appreciated Will give it a try.