[135555] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ipv6 for the content provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dale W. Carder)
Wed Jan 26 14:42:28 2011
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:41:37 -0600
From: "Dale W. Carder" <dwcarder@wisc.edu>
In-reply-to: <AANLkTinj7NQE5BbWcV92PYyZOU2+xeu5OXz=yYUUK1ot@mail.gmail.com>
To: Jack Carrozzo <jack@crepinc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Thus spake Jack Carrozzo (jack@crepinc.com) on Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 01:38:48PM -0500:
> As I understand it, when a client requests a particular domain of yours and gets
> an A and an AAAA, the client will default to the AAAA (assuming it's on a v6
> network) and attempt to communicate as such. Failing that, it will fall back
> to the v4 A record.
This is true for now.
See http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wing-v6ops-happy-eyeballs-ipv6
for a proposal on how this could change.
Dale
