[Pdns-users] What is do-ipv6-additional-processing for?

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Mon Oct 6 09:03:12 UTC 2008


* Seth Mattinen:

> Does anyone know offhand what the config setting
> "do-ipv6-additional-processing" does?

I guess it causes the recursor to include AAAA records in the
additional section, as required by some RFCs.  This means that a lot
of queries incur at least one additional upstream query, which reduces
performance.

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