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To: Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU>, dnsop@cafax.se
From: itojun@iijlab.net
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:46:25 +0900
In-reply-to: itojun's message of Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:43:47 +0900. <12584.1000889027@itojun.org>
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: operationally (if not yet WG) related


>>"We recommend DNS administrators DO NOT use mapped IPv6 addresses with
>>opcode 28 <type AAAA> resource records in ANY zone file."
>
>	I agree 120%.

	more words:
	from what RFC2553 3.7 says, IPv4 mapped addresses are not supposed to
	appear on the wire.  they are OS-internal representation of IPv4 peers
	on top of AF_INET6 socket.  they are not supposed to appear in the wild
	like AAAA records.

itojun

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