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How do you add an IPv6 glue record / host name on GoDaddy?

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bill_w

I manage my own nameservers and I have existing IPv4 host names set up on GoDaddy that point to them. They work as expected. I am now adding IPv6 to my nameservers, so I need to add the IPv6 addresses to my host names. The GoDaddy interface appears to be prepared for this, as it offers the ability to add a second address to the existing host names. Unfortunately, I cannot find a format that it will accept.

If I add an address in the abbreviated form, like fe80::1111:2222:3333:4444, it fails silently. There is no error message, but the address never appears after being added.

If I try the compact unabbreviated form (fe80:0:0:0:1111:2222:3333:4444) or the fully padded form (fe80:0000:0000:0000:1111:2222:3333:4444), then I instead get an error: "The IP address contained invalid characters."

I decided to try an alternative and attempted to configure a third host name instead, with only an IPv6 address. This also does not work, giving the error message: "The data provided cannot be used, please correct it and resubmit your request."

This may be a matter for Godaddy support, but I have not been able to talk to anyone who seems to understand DNS well enough to know what a glue record / host name is, even if I point them to the interface on their own web site. On the other hand, this is a routine task and there must surely be thousands of people who have done this, so I can only conclude that I am misunderstanding something fundamental.

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Patrick Mevzek
`fe80:*` is not a publicly routed block, hence should not happen in the public DNS. Hence it may be refused by some UI. Silently is bad of course yes but it may be the cause. It may here even be rejected by registrar or later by registry! And it will depend on the registry. Also I am sure you know about that already but anyway, glues exist and have a purpose but also creates lots of problems, so if you want less headaches configure your domains differently to not use in-bailiwick nameservers and hence no glues.
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