[141513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AAAA on various websites, but they all forgot to enable them on
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Octavio Alvarez)
Wed Jun 8 16:36:09 2011
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:34:48 -0700
From: "Octavio Alvarez" <alvarezp@alvarezp.ods.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DEF40C8.3020502@unfix.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:28:40 -0700, Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:
> It is really nice that folks where able to put AAAA records on their
> websites for only 24 hours, but they forgot to put in the glue on their
> nameservers.
>
> As such, for the folks testing IPv6-only, a lot of sites will fail
> unless they use a recursor that does the IPv4 for them.
In fact. Although a website of mine worked flawlessly in a dual-stack
but it did NOT in an IPv6-only environment. Unfortunately, the problem
has to be fixed in the DNS provider, which though supporting AAAA
records was enough to "support IPv6".
dig -6 +trace is our friend here.
--
Octavio.
