[143434] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: v4/v6 dns thoughts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake T. Pfankuch)
Tue Aug 9 23:04:03 2011
From: "Blake T. Pfankuch" <blake@pfankuch.me>
To: Landon Stewart <lstewart@superb.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:03:05 +0000
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I too agree the v4/v6 stuff is pointless and slightly annoying so I have be=
en using same name with A/AAAA records. =20
-----Original Message-----
From: Landon Stewart [mailto:lstewart@superb.net]=20
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 6:16 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: v4/v6 dns thoughts?
On 9 August 2011 16:36, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> My PTRs are all to the same host name. In any context where the=20
> protocol actually matters, you should have other ways to detect it.
>
> I also don't recommend doing the foo.v4/foo.v6 thing in your forwards.
> There's
> really no advantage to do it. Most tools either have separate=20
> IPv4/IPv6 variants or have command-line switches for address-family=20
> control if you care.
>
I agree that using the v4 or v6 tag in forward or reverse is pointless. On=
e can tell it is v4 or v6 by the result of the lookup and the hostnames don=
't change just because they are accessible via IPv6. If a hostname is dire=
ctly related to the fact that its IPv6 by all means put it in there though.
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