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Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Sat Jul 24 00:19:12 2004

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:23:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: Duane Wessels <cee4@packet-pushers.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0407232149180.98819@life-gone-hazy.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Duane Wessels wrote:

> Maybe, but don't forget that when BIND9 and DJBDNS caches find
> expired nameserver address (A) records they don't trust any cached
> data and start them back at the roots.  And in the case of BIND9,
> it sends both A and A6 queries for each nameserver in the list.

Do they really send A6 queries? Haven't we decided to go back to AAAA now?
 
-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william@elan.net


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