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Re: regarding the respsize draft: preferring glue of certain types
Jim Reid writes: > You're making a false assumption that the transport protocol used for > querying the server matters to the end client. No. We're talking about delegations. A parent DNS server, specifically one of the root DNS servers, provides child DNS server addresses, such as the .com DNS server addresses. The program using the .com DNS server addresses is the same DNS resolver that was talking to the root DNS server. Why is it useful for this DNS resolver to receive _both_ an A record and an AAAA record for a single .com DNS server? If it reached the root DNS server through IPv4, for example, then why would it want AAAA records for the .com DNS servers? ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.