[Pdns-dev] Re: AAAA's for net. NS-records question

[Leen Besselink]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:31:00AM +0200, bert hubert wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:14:51AM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:51:38AM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote:
> > Sorry, I 'already' found the switch:
> > 
> > aaaa-additional-processing
> > Looking at the comment in the config-file, it says it's slow.
> 
> Indeed - do you really want those AAAA records? Noone ever listens to
> additional records from a recursive server.
> 
> This option is included for those that have a real need for those records,
> and actually must have them.
> 

I don't really need them, right now, I was just surprised I didn't get them 
as they were provided by the author. nameservers.

In a couple of years ICANN will run out of IPv4 addresses, a year or two later 
the regional registries like RIPE will too.

So it's wise to look into it even more then we have done in the past.

So I've been looking at it from the perspective of what will happen if you
really can only get an IPv6-address, because there are no IPv4-addresses
available anymore and I have to say I would use the same word DJB used
to describe it: mess

DNS is not doing much better than a lot of the other fields, so it seems.

A non-forwarding recursive DNS-server will need an IPv4-address to get any
names, because for example the root-nameservers don't even have any IPv6-addresses.

It seems this alternative http://www.orsn.org/ now does have it. Well, that's a start.

> For an authoritative server, things are different.
> 

This I understand.

> 	Bert
> 
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