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to: Ozz Nixon
from: Richard Menedetter
date: 2019-04-07 12:50:00
subject: IPv6

Hi Ozz!

26 Mar 2019 18:48, from Ozz Nixon -> Michiel van der Vlist:

 ON> I updated my AAAA records for exchangeBBS...
 ON> but, I do not have an IPv6 enabled VPS environment...

??? I do not understand.
VPS as in virtual private server?
And if it is not IPv6 enabled why did you add a AAAA record??
It is utterly pointless and misleading.

fido@vserv:~$ host exchangebbs.com
exchangebbs.com has address 50.63.13.245
exchangebbs.com has IPv6 address 2001:470:1f18:12d::2
exchangebbs.com mail is handled by 0 mail.exchangebbs.com.
fido@vserv:~$ ping6 -c 1 2001:470:1f18:12d::2
PING 2001:470:1f18:12d::2(2001:470:1f18:12d::2) 56 data bytes

-+- 2001:470:1f18:12d::2 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

fido@vserv:~$ nmap -6 2001:470:1f18:12d::2 -Pn

Starting Nmap 6.47 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2019-04-07 12:49 CEST
Nmap scan report for tunnel528378-pt.tunnel.tserv1.phx2.ipv6.he.net 
(2001:470:1f18:12d::2)
Host is up (0.14s latency).
Not shown: 993 filtered ports
PORT     STATE  SERVICE
25/tcp   closed smtp
6666/tcp closed irc
6667/tcp closed irc
6668/tcp closed irc
6669/tcp closed irc
7000/tcp closed afs3-fileserver
9999/tcp closed abyss

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 13.52 seconds

CU, Ricsi

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