[dns-wg] AAAA lookup misbehaviour
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Jeroen Massar
jeroen at unfix.org
Wed Sep 8 13:59:32 CEST 2004
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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 240 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/dns-wg/attachments/20040908/5240e016/attachment.sig>
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