Re: Is an IPv6-only glue/delegation record a problem in a world of IPv4?

2010-01-13 Thread Mathew J. Newton
On Mon, January 11, 2010 9:10 pm, Matthew Pounsett wrote: I suspect that, even though they threw an error, your registrar went ahead and passed on the same IPv4 address for both name servers to the registry. I think this may have been the problem... I went back in to the registrar's DNS

Is an IPv6-only glue/delegation record a problem in a world of IPv4?

2010-01-11 Thread Mathew J. Newton
I would be grateful if someone might be able to shed some light on an apparent problem I've got with an experimental DNS I have setup. Specifically, the Dig tool at http://www.kloth.net/services/dig.php seems unable to resolve my records and I can't help but feel it's a problem at my end rather

Re: Is an IPv6-only glue/delegation record a problem in a world of IPv4?

2010-01-11 Thread Rick Dicaire
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Mathew J. Newton bind-us...@newtonnet.co.uk wrote: The same delegation records are present as glue in the .org nameservers. While this is not in response to your original question, I am curious. I'm not sure if you were part of the discussion we just had on IRC

Re: Is an IPv6-only glue/delegation record a problem in a world of IPv4?

2010-01-11 Thread Niobos
On 11 Jan 2010, at 18:29, Mathew J. Newton wrote: Specifically, the Dig tool at http://www.kloth.net/services/dig.php seems unable to resolve my records and I can't help but feel it's a problem at my end rather than theirs! It's their end The domain is v6ns.org, and the record I am

Re: Is an IPv6-only glue/delegation record a problem in a world of IPv4?

2010-01-11 Thread Mathew J. Newton
On Mon, January 11, 2010 5:57 pm, Rick Dicaire wrote: While this is not in response to your original question, I am curious. I'm not sure if you were part of the discussion we just had on IRC freenode #ipv6, but querying a .org TLD NS for records for ns1 and ns2.v6ns.org return no

Re: Is an IPv6-only glue/delegation record a problem in a world of IPv4?

2010-01-11 Thread Mathew J. Newton
On Mon, January 11, 2010 6:27 pm, Miles Mccredie wrote: FWIW, this is what I'm seeing from an IPv4 only host. Not sure if the unexpected source is the problem that kloth.net is seeing or whether it's the result of putting *;; reply from unexpected source: 77.103.161.36#60741, expected

Re: Is an IPv6-only glue/delegation record a problem in a world of IPv4?

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 2010/01/11, at 12:57, Rick Dicaire wrote: If I understand this correctly, the lack of an ANSWER section for query would denote there is no ipv6 glue at the TLD? No, that would indicate that the name server you queried is not authoritative for the record you queried about. Glue, by

Re: Is an IPv6-only glue/delegation record a problem in a world of IPv4?

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 2010/01/11, at 12:29, Mathew J. Newton wrote: Specifically, the Dig tool at http://www.kloth.net/services/dig.php seems unable to resolve my records and I can't help but feel it's a problem at my end rather than theirs! The problem may be at Kloth.. but at least one of the many possible

Re: Is an IPv6-only glue/delegation record a problem in a world of IPv4?

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 2010/01/11, at 14:48, Mathew J. Newton wrote: FWIW, at least one of the afilias hosts had the same IPv4 address for ns[12].v6ns.org. ns1.v6ns.org. 86400 IN A 77.103.161.36 ns1.v6ns.org. 86400 IN 2a01:348:133::a1 ns2.v6ns.org.

Re: Is an IPv6-only glue/delegation record a problem in a world of IPv4?

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 2010/01/11, at 15:16, Matthew Pounsett wrote: By contrast, Verisign's servers have long included glue in the ANSWER section. This is widely considered to be at best suboptimal, and by many (or most) to be a bug. Verisign has indicated that this behaviour is coming to an end, although

Re: Is an IPv6-only glue/delegation record a problem in a world of IPv4?

2010-01-11 Thread Mathew J. Newton
On Mon, January 11, 2010 8:33 pm, Matthew Pounsett wrote: The problem may be at Kloth.. but at least one of the many possible problems they might be having could be corrected by a slightly different configuration at your end. Thanks Matt for your (and others) continued help with this - it is