[100054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Geographic map of IPv6 availability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Sun Oct 14 13:37:18 2007
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:34:29 -0400
From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g31wbznhiz.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 13 Oct 2007 15:47:16 +0000, Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com> wrote:
>
> Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net> writes:
>
> > ...
> > Nice rant though :-)
>
> agreed.
>
> > ...
> > Does anyone have info on how bind (and other recursive resolvers)
> > select whether to use v6 or v4 if an NS points at a resource with both
> > A and AAAA records? Most OSes prefer the AAAA record, does bind behave
> > the same?
>
> yes.
Is this a configurable option for the inverse behavoir? Seems to me
that it should be since it affects the user experience and sets policy
for the network. It just may be, but I can't find the option if it is.
Best,
-M<
