Re: Implicit MX and A RRs

2008-03-28 Thread Ned Freed
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Matti Aarnio wrote: There will be lots of legacy codes using legacy APIs for long future. I do use getaddrinfo() API myself, and permit it do all queries to get addresses. Thus it will also query for A in addition to . It can even be ordered to ignore IPv4

Re: Implicit MX and A RRs

2008-03-27 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 27 March, 2008 09:00 +0200 Matti Aarnio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:46:37AM -0400, Tony Hansen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It would be needed until IPv6 takes over. It will be needed even *after* IPv6 takes over. There will be

Re: Implicit MX and A RRs

2008-03-27 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:46:37AM -0400, Tony Hansen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It would be needed until IPv6 takes over. It will be needed even *after* IPv6 takes over. There will be lots of queries for A records long after the majority of hosts don't have A

Re: Implicit MX and A RRs

2008-03-27 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Matti Aarnio wrote: There will be lots of legacy codes using legacy APIs for long future. I do use getaddrinfo() API myself, and permit it do all queries to get addresses. Thus it will also query for A in addition to . It can even be ordered to ignore IPv4 or IPv6

Implicit MX and A RRs (was: Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis)

2008-03-26 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 26 March, 2008 22:41 +1100 Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It would be needed until IPv6 takes over. It will be needed even *after* IPv6 takes over. There will be lots of queries for A records long after the majority of hosts don't have A

Re: Implicit MX and A RRs

2008-03-26 Thread Tony Hansen
As the shepherd/pseudo-chair for 2821bis effort, our plan of action is going to be as follows: *) the implicit MX issue needs to be resolved. *) there are a few other small items that need to be resolved that will be detailed on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list We'll give the