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Unbound v6ns test failure

BeachGuy

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I used https://test-ipv6.com/. It failed "Your DNS server (possibly run by your ISP) appears to have no access to the IPv6 Internet, or is not configured to use it. This may in the future restrict your ability to reach IPv6-only sites. [more info]". "more info" shows v6ns test failure. If this test fails: it means that the DNS resolver you are using, requires IPv4 to reach the DNS authoritative servers of your favorite web sites

Do you operate your own DNS resolvers?​

If you operated the DNS resolvers in use at your home or organization, enabling IPv6 on your DNS server is easy.
  • ISC BIND: Make sure that IPv6 support is compiled in when you ./configure it. It is enabled by default. If you recently added IPv6 to your server, simply restart your named process, as you normally would.
  • PowerDNS: Configure query-local-address6 in your recursor.conf. Restart powerdns.
  • Windows Server 2003: Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 at a minimum. Windows 2003 will resolve AAAA records, and supports IPv6 clients, but does *not* do DNS resolution over IPv6.
Confirmation: dig aaaa aaaa.v6ns.test-ipv6.com should return back an aaaa record without errors.

However this appears to be fine:
dig @::1 aaaa aaaa.v6ns.test-ipv6.com

; <<>> DiG 9.20.7 <<>> @::1 aaaa aaaa.v6ns.test-ipv6.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41487
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;aaaa.v6ns.test-ipv6.com. IN AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
aaaa.v6ns.test-ipv6.com. 1200 IN AAAA 2a01:7e04::2000:b0ff:fe83:1757

;; Query time: 88 msec
;; SERVER: ::1#53(::1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Sat Mar 14 00:17:48 EDT 2026
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 80
 
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