On Dec 5, 2008, at 15:42, Mirosław Jaworski wrote:
> Shouldn't the system architects be awared of such behaviour and
> foresee
> impact of publishing AAAA records for service names already used in
> production? Of course.
Yeah - that's why nobody is using IPv6 - basically.
It was an incredibly poorly thought out transition plan.
I don't agree with everything in it, but djb has a pretty good
description of the problems:
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
One thing that could help would be having ntpd and openntpd have an
intelligent fallback to the A record when it gets both and the AAAA
record didn't work. Maybe they do already, but probably not ...
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