[157363] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Please, talk me down.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lyon)
Tue Oct 16 23:45:17 2012
From: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2801F5F8-B8E2-4A9F-9A89-02D7783CCDA7@josephholsten.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:43:53 -0700
To: Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Upgrade djbdns to support IPV6? Think there is a patch for it...
-mike
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On Oct 16, 2012, at 20:36, Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten
<joseph@josephholsten.com> wrote:
> I want to like IPv6. I do. But I'm seriously considering turning off IPv6=
support from our servers.
>
> First off, I'm using djbdns internally and it doesn't support AAAA record=
s. So we really aren't using it internally.
>
> But today I noticed that we have a lot of traffic to our DNS cache, and s=
tarted to investigate. Turns out that every DNS request would start with on=
e for the AAAA record. Ah, no luck. Maybe you forgot the search domain? Let=
's retry that DNS request with that tacked on. Failed again? Meanwhile, let=
s simultaneously try for the AA record then. Repeat.
>
> I'm _this_ close to turning IPv6 off entirely. Anyone want to talk me off=
this ledge?
> --
> http://josephholsten.com
