[Pdns-users] Upgrading PDNS from 2.9 to 3.0- STL error: Creating local resolver socket for ::: Address family not supported by protocol

[bert hubert]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 05:45:59PM +0100, Peter Gervai wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 17:41, Dougan, Linda A <DOUGANLA at gru.com> wrote:
> > “Communicator thread died because of STL error: Creating local resolver
> > socket for ::: Address family not supported by protocol”
> 
> Do you use IPv6? If not, try to convince pdns as well to not to. :)

Indeed. The solution is to add:

query-local-address6=

Your PowerDNS is attempting to bind to an IPv6 socket, and your kernel
doesn't have it.  These days we default to using IPv6 for talking to remotes
if they have IPv6 addresses, unsure if we should change this behavior.

	Bert