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To: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Jim Bound <seamus@bit-net.com>, users@ipv6.org, dns op wg <dnsop@cafax.se>, ngtrans@sunroof.eng.sun.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com>
Date: 18 Jan 2001 09:10:37 -0500
In-Reply-To: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com's message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:56:18 +1100"
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: IPv6 dns


Mark.Andrews@nominum.com writes:
> 	The real worry with BIND 4 is that it does not support TCP
> 	retries.   So as long a mix of A and A6/AAAA records make
> 	it into the additional section and we don't increase the
> 	answer section things should be ok.

We could easily just have the roots only reply with AAAA/A6 records
for themselves when contacted over v6 transport. That should lessen
the issue for old clients, eh?


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