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Re: FYI - ZDNet and the "Birth of IPv6" referring to the BBC article

2008-02-17 22:07:53

in the case of "B" - you would have only gotten "A" records 
prior to 04feb2008.

--bill


On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:59:38PM -0500, Jeffrey S. Young wrote:
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

-- 
</Dan>

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