[dns-wg] AAAA lookup misbehaviour

On 8 Sep, 2004, at 13:59, Jeroen Massar wrote:

> 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.
>

9.3.x has no code left to deal with A6 records.

Joao