Bill, On 2010-04-03 05:55, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 06:09:53PM +0200, Rimi Despris wrote: >>> Surely a better hack would be for recursive resolvers in IPv6-broken >>> networks not to serve up AAAA records at all? >> Agreed. >> >> RD > > aren't you making the assumption that the recursive resolver is > on/in the same broadcast domain as the stub which it is serving? > how can you ensure that the IP reachability of the stub is "semantically > simialar"** to the IP reachability of the recursive resolver? > > the DNS has no hooks into topological reachability.
Correct, but a hack in this area by definition can't cover all cases. Er, much better to mend the IPv6 brokenness, of course. Brian > > ** identical, equivalent, etc... See IDN equivalence > > --bill > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
