Installing IPv6 capable BIND9 on AIX

The easiest way to add IPv6 capable BIND to AIX 4.3.3 is compile one to ourselves. You can download BIND 9.2.5 or BING 9.3.1 from http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind9.html

Compiling is sufficiently easy: automaitcaly detects IPv6 support. The output of the configure script should look like:

 ...
 checking for IPv6 structures... yes
 checking for Kame IPv6 support... no
 checking for in6_addr... yes
 checking for in6addr_any... yes
 checking for in6addr_loopback... no
 checking for sin6_scope_id in struct sockaddr_in6... no
 checking for in6_pktinfo... yes
 checking for inet_ntop with IPv6 support... yes
 checking for working inet_pton with IPv6 support... no
 checking for inet_aton... yes
 ...

For some strange reason if configure does not find IPv6 support you should try adding --enable-ipv6 to configure script.

You should compile (make; make install) with gcc.

How can configure BIND 9 on AIX?

Look at BIND9 IPv6 configuration guide