[6bone] A question about BIND 9 and IPv6 == A6 vs AAAA

[Pim van Pelt]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 05:34:53PM -0700, Colin Faber wrote:
| Quick question about BIND 9 and IPv6. In the BIND 9.2.3 ARM Chapter 6 
| under section 6.3 the 'AAAA' type record is to be considered deprecated 
| and obsolete, in favor of the 'A6' type record. The problem I'm seeing 
| with this is MANY software implementations (including ones I've 
| developed) prefer the older obsolete 'AAAA' type record.  When was this 
| switch to 'A6' going to take place, (is this a long standing issue with 
| DNS record types? Should site policy be to no longer support 'AAAA' in 
| favor of  'A6'?
Simple. It's the other way around. A6 is deprecated, AAAA is what you
should use.

groet,
Pim

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