Re: [dns-wg] AAAA lookup misbehaviour

[Jeroen Massar <]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 13:05, David Malone wrote:
> 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?

Notez bien that some software is also doing A6 lookups, even bind9 does
this upto 9.3.x afaik.

Add a small item about ip6.int and ip6.arpa and maybe even discussing
(again as the previous time nicely got killed) about the quick removal
of ip6.int in total.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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