Have a look at IO ~> dig -t any IO @a.nic.IO. ;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode. ; <<>> DiG 9.4.0b4 <<>> -t any IO @a.nic.IO. ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63841 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 16, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 7 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;IO. IN ANY ;; ANSWER SECTION: IO. 604800 IN SOA ns.nic.IO. nicadmin.nic.IO. 2007100602 43200 3600 3600000 86400 IO. 604800 IN NS b.nic.ac. IO. 604800 IN NS b.nic.IO. IO. 604800 IN NS b.ns13.net. IO. 604800 IN NS ns1.communitydns.net. IO. 604800 IN NS ns3.icb.co.uk. IO. 604800 IN NS a.nic.IO. IO. 604800 IN NS a.ns13.net. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: a.nic.IO. 3600 IN A 64.251.31.179 b.nic.ac. 3600 IN A 217.160.203.158 b.nic.IO. 3600 IN A 66.235.201.216 ns1.communitydns.net. 3600 IN A 194.0.1.1 ns3.icb.co.uk. 3600 IN A 217.199.188.61 ns3.icb.co.uk. 3600 IN AAAA 2001:628:453:430c:230:48ff:fe42:60f ;; Query time: 231 msec ;; SERVER: 64.251.31.179#53(64.251.31.179) ;; WHEN: Sat Oct 6 14:19:41 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 884 (sorry I had to clip a bit) Now look at the root-servers: ; <<>> DiG 9.4.0b4 <<>> -t any IO @a.root-servers.net ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31250 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 8, ADDITIONAL: 8 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;IO. IN ANY ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: IO. 172800 IN NS B.NS13.NET. IO. 172800 IN NS NS1.COMMUNITYDNS.NET. IO. 172800 IN NS NS3.ICB.CO.UK. IO. 172800 IN NS A.NIC.IO. IO. 172800 IN NS A.NS13.NET. IO. 172800 IN NS B.NIC.AC. IO. 172800 IN NS B.NIC.IO. IO. 172800 IN NS B.NIC.SH. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: A.NIC.IO. 172800 IN A 64.251.31.179 A.NS13.NET. 172800 IN A 202.181.97.168 B.NIC.AC. 172800 IN A 217.160.203.158 B.NIC.IO. 172800 IN A 66.235.201.216 B.NIC.SH. 172800 IN A 216.117.156.206 B.NS13.NET. 172800 IN A 202.181.96.60 NS1.COMMUNITYDNS.NET. 172800 IN A 194.0.1.1 NS3.ICB.CO.UK. 172800 IN A 217.199.188.61 ;; Query time: 144 msec ;; SERVER: 198.41.0.4#53(198.41.0.4) ;; WHEN: Sat Oct 6 14:23:27 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 326 The IPv6 is gone. On my own boxes I had problems to reach sites that had both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses for one and the same server until I unplucked the IPv6 stack. My problem was there were nonconnected IPv6 islands that could not see each other. Kevin Loch wrote:
Nathan Ward wrote:
On 6/10/2007, at 3:18 AM, Stephen Wilcox wrote:
<stuff> Given the above, I think there is no myth.. !
That's because the 'v6 network' is broken enough that putting AAAA records on sites that need to be well reachable is a bad idea.
For example, due mainly to Vista's 6to4 tunnelling stuff (based on researching a random sample of users), I'd lose about 4% of visitors to my web-sites if I were to turn on AAAA records.
Has anyone who was using AAAA records for a site turned them off due to reachability problems?
- Kevin
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