Prior to 4 Feb, quite a few of the root servers had listed IPv6
addresses
(see http://www.root-servers.org). I took this announcement to mean
that
IPv6 information would now (after 4 Feb) be included in downloaded
copies
of root hints. Delays, studies, byte limits, all that stuff...
I assumed that if placed the IPv6 addresses in my own local copy of root
hints and I queried one of the root servers, "B,F,H,K,or M" for
instance, with
an IPv6 only host I would get an answer that included AAAA (and A)
records
prior to 4 Feb.
It's a minor nit, I know, but is this correct?
jy
On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Dan York wrote:
Yes, and I realized after sending this that what I had seen earlier
(that I mentioned at the end of my note) was just the announcement
on January 4th that the root servers would be updated on February 4th.
Dan
On Feb 5, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Daniel Brown wrote:
2008/2/4 Dan York <dyork(_at_)voxeo(_dot_)com>:
FYI, Richard Stiennon at ZDNet noticed that the root servers
will be
IPv6-accessible and refers to it as the "Birth of IPv6":
http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=527
He was pointing over to the BBC article about this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7221758.stm
(I thought the AAAA records had gone up into the root servers a
few weeks
ago so I was surprised to read that it was only today (assuming
the articles
are accurate, of course).)
Dan
Coincidentally, there was another ZDNet article I had read
earlier
today entitled "ICANN turns on next-gen IP addresses".
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6229218.html
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