Tunnel Up Under Win7 32-bit But DNS Questions

[dshirsh]

The tunnel is running OK, I can ping IPv6 addresses but I'm confused on how DNS should be set up. My tunnel is using the same DNS servers that my wireless interface has. When I try to go to the Google site it's using the IPv4 address. How should DNS be set up? Thanks.

[dshirsh]

OK, I went and put the HE IPv6 nameserver, 2001:470:20::2, into my IPv6 DNS settings. This appears to do the trick. IE8 uses the IPv6 addresses correctly. Any caveats with this setup?

[cholzhauer]

That will work.

The only issues you will have is if you're trying to do a lookup on a local machine...in that case, you won't get a result because HE doesn't know about your local machines.

[dshirsh]

OK, I recreated my IP6Tunnel from scratch. I can ping via IP just fine. My concern is that the tunnel shows the same 2 DNS servers that my wireless v4 interface has. This doesn't seem right. I'm currently using my ISPs DNS servers. Where's the best place to put the HE DNS IP?

[cholzhauer]

All depends on how you want to use it.

The only place I use the HE dns server is as a forwarding entry in my DNS server.  I forward all queries for Google to HE so they can resolve Google's AAAA records for me.

If you're not running a internal DNS server and are just using the DNS servers of your ISP, there's nothing wrong with using HE's address instead; it'll just take a little longer.