> >From our mirror checking host: > [ralph at server ~]$ host -a mirror.lihnidos.org Trying "mirror.lihnidos.org" > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46473 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0 > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;mirror.lihnidos.org. IN ANY > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > mirror.lihnidos.org. 25746 IN AAAA 2001:15c0:6626:19::2b > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > lihnidos.org. 25746 IN NS gimb-dijaki-1.lihnidos.org. > lihnidos.org. 25746 IN NS ignacia.lihnidos.org. > Received 115 bytes from 72.232.223.58#53 in 1 ms > >From my home machine: > iPanic:Music ralph$ host -a mirror.lihnidos.org Trying "mirror.lihnidos.org" > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27295 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0 > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;mirror.lihnidos.org. IN ANY > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > mirror.lihnidos.org. 86334 IN AAAA 2001:15c0:6626:19::2b > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > lihnidos.org. 86333 IN NS ignacia.lihnidos.org. > lihnidos.org. 86333 IN NS gimb-dijaki-1.lihnidos.org. > Yet I am able to reach your mirror with my browser, but (again from my home machine): Thank you for your in-depth analyze > iPanic:Music ralph$ curl http://mirror.lihnidos.org/CentOS/timestamp.txt > curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'mirror.lihnidos.org' iPanic:Music ralph$ >> Does anybody know why this happens? IPv6 firewall is configured to >> allow HTTP trafic. > Looks like I only get the AAAA address. Home machine is OS X, mirror checker is CentOS. You were right. I did only have AAAA record for mirror.lihnidos.org and A record for *.lihnidos.org. And because absolute A/AAAA entries override scaron entries (*), DNS system was only returning AAAA record. I have added A record now, so it should work normally now. Thank you and best regards, Damjan Sirnik