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If you don't get a similar response then you need to investigate your DNS setup, or perhaps your ISP's.
Some DNS services don't seem to reliably resolve AAAA lookups. In particular, some appear to resolve A and AAAA records with variable delays which sometimes causes web browsers to determine that only an IPv4 address exists since the IPv6 lookup resolves too slowly. You can try one of the publicly accessible DNS resolvers as an alternative to your current providers if you believe that this might be the case. For those using a tunneled IPv6 connection then it is likely that your tunnel provider also offers a DNS resolver:
* [http://www.sixxs.net/tools/dnscache/ SixXS DNS Servers]
* Hurricane Electric - see Available DNS resolvers section of your tunnel setup
Other public IPv6 DNS resolvers:
* [https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using Google DNS Servers]
* [http://www.opendns.com/technology/ipv6/ OpenDNS IPv6 trial]
The order in which you list the DNS resolvers is important - so when trying a new resolver ensure that you place it at the front of your resolver list. Note that it is worth checking that you can communicate with the resolver before modifying your resolver list since you may otherwise encounter significant delays when attempting to lookup a host. In a linux environment this can be checked using a command similar to:
host ipv6.chappell-family.com 2001:4860:4860::8888
Using domain server:
Name: 2001:4860:4860::8888
Address: 2001:4860:4860::8888#53
Aliases:
ipv6.chappell-family.com has address 212.159.122.74
ipv6.chappell-family.com has IPv6 address 2001:470:1f08:185c::2
ipv6.chappell-family.com mail is handled by 10 mail.ipv6.chappell-family.com.
Note that it isn't necessary to access your DNS resolver using IPv6 if you don't want to - as long as the DNS server supports AAAA queries then that is sufficient. This is the same query using Google's IPv4 resolver:
host ipv6.chappell-family.com 8.8.4.4
Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.4.4
Address: 8.8.4.4#53
Aliases:
ipv6.chappell-family.com has address 212.159.122.74
ipv6.chappell-family.com has IPv6 address 2001:470:1f08:185c::2
ipv6.chappell-family.com mail is handled by 10 mail.ipv6.chappell-family.com.