* Mohacsi Janos: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Nathan Ward wrote: > >> On 20/11/2008, at 4:06 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: >> >>> * Michael Sinatra: >>> >>>> And it just reinforces the fear that people have against putting AAAA >>>> records in DNS for their publicly-accessible resources, especially >>>> www. >>> >>> Won't current Windows clients work just fine in this case? >>> >>> I have no idea what a fix should look like for some of the non-Windows >>> systems I care about, unfortunately.
Do you mean that the client tries to enable 6to4 unsuccessfully? >> No, unfortunately broken 6to4 auto-configuration (ie, in Vista, >> XPSP2, when on a non-RFC1918 IP address) breaks, and you get 90s >> timeouts before falling back to IPv4/A. > > This must be a broken RFC 3484 implementation: > - 6to4 should be less prerefed than IPv4 if the service has both AAAA > and A record. RFC 3848 generally prefers IPv6 over IPv4 and fails if the host running its algorithm has neither IPv6 connectivity nore mean to detect that efficiently. I think Windows does something in the second area.