> Recursive DNS servers *have* to support IPv4 at the moment, or
> else they can't do much useful things at the moment. This will actually
> continue until the majority of DNS servers supports IPv6 - even though
> there may be IPv6-only nodes much earlier, DNS servers will require
> IPv4 connectivity for a long time. By nearly the same rationale,
> authoritative servers will continue to require IPv4 connectivity
> for quite some time.
> 
> So I stand by my claim: DNS servers will continue to use IPv4 for a long
> time.

The root zone is already available via IPv6, many TLDs also support
IPv6. Some SLDs do. Providing DNS services via IPv6 (too) is usually
next to trivial.

> No, v6-connected stub resolvers will use their recursive resolve, which
> then, in turn, will use IPv4.

There are many persons operating their own recursor exactly on the same
box or at least with exactly the same connectivity their stub resolver
has. Afaik, that is neither a discouraged nor an uncommon scenario. Of
course it becomes discouraged if most services would keep DNS on IPv4
only - which they hopefully will not.

-Christian Franke
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