[101808] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 gluelessness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Larson)
Fri Jan 18 17:51:10 2008
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:48:35 -0500
From: Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>,
North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4791121A.1010703@psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Randy Bush wrote:
> >I don't know what the process is for getting IPv6 addresses associated
> >with host records in the VGRS COM/NET registry, but it seems like good
> >information to share here if you find a definitive answer.
>
> i will. i am trying to document ops processes for v6 in my feeble way,
> doing it in a blog-like fashion. e.g. for the sage of doing it at one
> small set of servers see <http://rip.psg.com/~randy/ipv6-westin.html>.
> more clues would be appreciated. i am hoping all this will seem trite
> and passe in six months or so.
>
> but if we can not find a way to get AAAA glue added to gTLDs such as the
> com zone, we have a *serious* impediment to v6 deployment that needs to
> be fixed quickly.
The .com/.net registry has supported AAAA RRs for over five years
(since May, 2002). The issue you may be encountering is that not
every .com/.net registrar supports them.
Matt
