Todd Underwood <toddunder@gmail.com> writes:
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
There are many zones (including your isc.org) that have several name servers dual-stacked, and they didn't notice a problem. Furthermore, since the DNS is a tree, resolution of google.com requires a proper resolution of the root and .com, both having IPv6 name servers.
"didn't notice a problem" is woefully insufficient here.
how carefully was this measured? how was it measured? across what diversity of traffic. what was the threshold for "a problem" here.
Agreed. Most domain owners/zone admins probably would not notice this, even if it was a very real problem for one or two ISPs. But given that, I do wonder how such an ISP could provide any service at all. As pointed out by Stephane, there are so many zones having dual stacked DNS servers nowadays that one more or less makes little difference. Even if that zone is google.com. The rest of the world are dual stacked wrt DNS, with very few exceptions. What about the root zone? Or microsoft.com? Or facebook.com? No users interested in either of those? Only google.com? Sorry, I do not buy the excuse. Bjørn