AAAA, A6, or both?

[Michael Kjorling]

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On Jan 18 2002 20:09 +0100, Pim van Pelt wrote:

> | First of all, if this is off topic for this list I apologize in
> | advance and do not want anyone to feel obligated to read this.
> It's on topic, and perhaps more than you'd think.

Well then, at least I don't get flamed... :-)


> | Could anyone please advise me as to which approach I should take?
> | Every time I read up on this I only get more confused.
> You should use AAAA and disregard anything you ever read about A6.
>
> groet,
> Pim

OK - I have received three other e-mails where various people suggest
using both AAAA and A6 in order to support the maximum number of
clients, and one of them pointing out as well that A6 chaining can be
disabled by using a prefix length value of 0. And I really cannot see
how it can hurt to use both.

This brings up another matter, though - reverse lookups. ip6.arpa or
ip6.int, bitlabels (like \[x3FFE/16]) or nibble
(e.f.f.e.ip6.[arpa|int]) form? Both ip6.arpa and ip6.int are delegated
off the root servers.

Any input is much appreciated, as I am still very new to IPv6 (though
fairly familiar with IPv4).


Michael Kjörling

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