To:
Havard Eidnes <he@runit.no>
Cc:
randy@psg.com, seamus@bit-net.com, users@ipv6.org, dnsop@cafax.se, ngtrans@sunroof.eng.sun.com
From:
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com>
Date:
19 Jan 2001 17:28:06 -0500
In-Reply-To:
Havard Eidnes's message of "Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:47:07 +0100"
Sender:
owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: IPv6 dns
I agree with many things you say, but: Havard Eidnes <he@runit.no> writes: > o Itojun informing us that deployment of AAAA has already happened > at various places in the DNS tree, and that some registries > already handle registration of IPv6-related glue, and that no > problems have been observed so far. > > An argument against Itojun's experiences could be that the set of > name servers actually exposed to their IPv6 records is probably quite > small. I would strongly argue that it isn't. Any time electronic mail gets sent to folks at KAME, or to me, or to lots of other people, the hosts on the other side get exposed to AAAA records or worse. There are probably, without exaggeration, at least hundreds of thousands of hosts that have been exposed so far -- and nothing bad has happened to them. I've asked Randy explicitly if he felt that there was an issue here, and the only issue he can articulate is a worry about cache contamination, not a worry about hosts going ga-ga when they get exposed to quad-A or A6. -- Perry E. Metzger perry@wasabisystems.com -- Quality NetBSD CDs, Support & Service. http://www.wasabisystems.com/