Re: [dns-wg] "adding IPv6 glue to root zone" document

[Mohsen Souissi <]

On 14 Nov, Ronald van der Pol wrote:
| On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 17:06:14 +0100, Mohsen Souissi wrote:
| 
| > Hi,
| > 
| > Thanks very much for that document. It is very useful for the
| > community.
| > 
| > I have only 2 comments concerning Appendix A:
| 
| Thanks for your comments.
| 
| > 1) Among the 39 mentioned name servers, why are there duplicates (same
| > names with the same addresses, see for example d.dns.jp (3 times) or
| > ns.nic.ir (2 times) ?
| 
| Oops. Seems like I forgot a uniq(1). The result with respect to drops
| still stands, but the 39 figure is actually less.
| 
| > 2) As far as I know, the IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses are irrelevant in
| > this context (see *.dotdm.net et *.netdns.com), do these name servers
| > have regular (2001 or 3ffe) IPv6 addresses ?
| 
| We queried the auth nameservers for those. They only report mapped
| addresses, no global addresses. Why are these mapped addresses irrelevant
| in this context? They show up in the additional section.

==> Hmmm... Can you reach them? ;-) I can't !  Going back to a
discussion which took place 2 years ago on dnsop mailing-list, I found
the following thread:

http://www.cafax.se/dnsop/maillist/2001-09/msg00021.html

Hope that helps...

Mohsen.