Re: [dns-wg] AAAA lookup misbehaviour

[David Malone <]

As the next RIPE meeting is rolling up, I just thought I'd raise
the AAAA lookup misbehaviour thread again. To briefly remind you
of where we'd got to:

	1) I'd written up a short describing the problem
	   with authoritative servers and recommending that
	   new name servers should be tested before deployment.
	2) Alvaro and Colm had highlighted some problems with
	   client resolver libraries, but it wasn't clear if
	   a description of these problems should live in the
	   same document.
	3) We were trying to figure out what action could be
	   taken to encourage people to fix existing problem
	   name servers.

So, other than the hall of shame, what options do we have to
encourage people to fix their software? Working with vendors
of DNS solutions is certainly a good idea, and the dns-wg's
name could be useful when convincing vendors to take action.

Another possibility would be to recommend that when problem
DNS servers are found, then they should be considered lame
and so dropped from the advertised list of NSs for a zone.

Any other ideas?

	David.