[6bone] AAAA and A6 recent status?

[Michael Kjorling]

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On May 21 2002 09:04 -0400, Michael W. Oliver wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Is there any negative effect of using both A6 and AAAA records?  Most of
> the hosts on my small network are dual-stack, and I have configured BIND
> with A6, AAAA, and A records for each of them.  Is this bad practice in
> anyone's opinion?
>
> Thanks in advance for your insight.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Oliver

All your slave servers have to at least be able to serve A6 RRs.

Actually I think the real problem is not the A6 forward records (they
can be dealt with) but bitlabels. Just as the I-D points out, queries
containing bitlabels can quite easily be rejected as malformed. Not a
good thing.


Michael Kjörling

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