BIND 9.3.1 - How to get rid of AAAA querys?

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Thu Sep 13 18:21:28 PDT 2007


> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> 
> > Andreas Pettersson wrote:
> >> Mark Andrews wrote:
> >>> 	Why don't you go the other way and get yourself IPv6
> >>> 	connectivity.  You do realise that you will require it to
> >>> 	reach many sites in about 3 years time as they will be IPv6
> >>> 	only
> >> 
> >> For almost 10 years I've heard discussions about the successor to IPv4, bu
> t 
> >> from my point of view (may differ from others..) not much has happened. Of
>  
> >> course, I can imagine that when the wheel starts rolling for real things 
> >> might change quickly. 3 years may prove to be correct, but are there any 
> >> clear signs pointing in this direction?
> >
> > The proponents of IPv6 have claimed growing real-world deployment for the 
> > last several years.  There is yet no significant commercial deployment--the
>  
> > real world still runs on IPv4.
> 
> Just adding another "real world" datapoint...  I'd love to get my hands 
> dirty with IPv6.  I contacted both of our upstreams, Level3 and HE.net.
> 
> Level3 never responded, if anyone has details on what their deal is, 
> please share (offlist).
> 
> HE.net wanted both more money and for us to order another port with them.

	HE claim they are now dual stacked.  You shouldn't need a
	second port.
 
> For the 0.0001% of our users that have expressed interest in v6 
> connectivity, we're not going to pay for another FE port just to 
> experiment.  I'm sure most other Tier-2 local/regional ISPs feel the same 
> way.
> 
> If there were a free and "best effort" service offered by any of our 
> upstreams though, I'd jump at it.
> 
> My buddy Ike over at NYCBUG does have a bunch of pictures of cheap 
> consumer IPv6 home routers from his trip to Japan.  Apparently it's quite 
> widespread there.
> 
> Charles
> 
> > -- 
> > Darren Pilgrim
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