To:
Johan Ihren <johani@autonomica.se>
Cc:
ngtrans@sunroof.eng.sun.com, ipng@sunroof.eng.sun.com, dnsop@cafax.se, namedroppers@ops.ietf.org
From:
Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@sun.com>
Date:
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:10:28 -0700
In-Reply-To:
<2clmklk436.fsf@snout.autonomica.se>
Sender:
owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: (ngtrans) Joint DNSEXT & NGTRANS summary
At 12:30 PM 8/15/2001 +0200, Johan Ihren wrote:
> > There's no reason why it can't be a gradual upgrade. Authoritative
> > servers for zones with A6 can do AAAA synthesis at query time just
> > as easily as the local non-stub resolver can. It becomes a server-side
> > indirection mechanism, which is available to A6-grokking caches.
>
>This is *wrong*.
>
>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.
Those fragments could be provided (or queried) when the server is started.
- Alain.