> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:41:14 -0800 > From: Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Doug, > > > > This is both true and false because an IPv6 only DNS server (this may be > > an imaginary entity) > > It is. Modulo some theoretical exercise being performed by people who > are smart enough to know how to prime them already, there are no > IPv6-only name servers. Even though the root is ready now, only 112 of > the 281 TLDs have IPv6 glue of any sort. The IPv6-only Internet is a > long way away. > > Now everything I just said will become less true going forward, which > is why I said I will do the change request ASAP. But it's still not > urgent, and any impact that not doing the change tomorrow might have > is so minimal as to be basically immeasurable.
Doug, I agree. That's why I said that it is not high-priority, but I wanted to make people aware that this was not just the usual case when a root server moves to a new address. I do suspect that there may be real IPv6 only DNS servers out there, but, if they exist, they are probably in China and will never point at the real root servers. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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