Does not work resolving IPv6 addresses via IPv4 DNS-server

[Gary Palmer]

On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 01:56:05PM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> "Vladislav V. Prodan" <universite at ukr.net> wrote
>   in <4C5E33BB.50809 at ukr.net>:
> 
> un> # host -6 2001:5c0:1000:b::599b 8.8.8.8
> un> socket.c:1859: internal_send: ::ffff:8.8.8.8#53: Invalid argument
> un> socket.c:1859: internal_send: ::ffff:8.8.8.8#53: Invalid argument
> un> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> 
>  The above command specifies IPv4 as the transport to 8.8.8.8.

I believe you mean that the -6 flag specifies that the utility use 
IPv6 as the transport to reach the IPv4 address 8.8.8.8

Regards,

Gary