AAAA, A6, or both?

Helios de Creisquer helios@balios.org
Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:46:57 +0100


On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 05:25:18PM +0100, Michael Kjorling wrote:
> we're only talking about one record *type*). So, my question is, which
> should I use: A6, AAAA, or both? I don't have many machines for the
> moment so the maintenance burden of the AAAA approach is pretty much
> nada, and I would like to be able to serve content over IPv6 to as
> many as possible.
> 
> Could anyone please advise me as to which approach I should take?
> Every time I read up on this I only get more confused.

Hi !

Seems to me the A6 records obsoleted the AAAA records... but I would use
both cause of resolvers... it seems that some versions around  here  ask
only for AAAA and not A6...

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