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Updated on 2023-12-18 GMT+08:00

Does DNS Support IPv6?

Yes. DNS can translate domain names to both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

To translate a domain name to an IPv4 address, add an A record set. To translate a domain name to an IPv6 address, add an AAAA record set.

If your domain name is example.com, you can add the following record sets.

Table 1 Record sets

Domain Name

Type

Value

www.example.com

A

192.168.1.2

www.example.com

AAAA

2407:c080:0:ffff:ffff:fffe:0:1

DNS servers (ns1.huaweicloud-dns.eu and ns2.huaweicloud-dns.eu) support both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

Local DNS servers, either supporting IPv4 or IPv6 or both, can send DNS queries to DNS servers.