To:
Johan Ihren <johani@autonomica.se>, David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>
Cc:
Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>, ngtrans@sunroof.eng.sun.com, ipng@sunroof.eng.sun.com, dnsop@cafax.se, namedroppers@ops.ietf.org
From:
Nathan Jones <nathanj@optimo.com.au>
Date:
Thu, 16 Aug 2001 02:04:35 +1000
In-Reply-To:
<E15X1Rz-000JKv-00@psg.com>; from Johan Ihren on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:30:37PM +0200
Sender:
owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: (ngtrans) Joint DNSEXT & NGTRANS summary
Johan Ihren wrote: >An authoritative, non-recursive server with only A6 fragments around >can not synthesise the AAAA since that would require it to query for >missing fragments. True, but it could still be an option for DNS administrators happy to run a recursive nameserver. Also, I haven't thought this through fully, but is there any reason a nameserver couldn't have an option to use recursion for AAAA synthesis, but still deny to recurse when answering client queries? -- nathanj