AAAA on various websites, but they all forgot to enable them on their nameservers....

Jeroen Massar jeroen at unfix.org
Wed Jun 8 09:28:40 UTC 2011


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.

The root is there, .com does it mostly too (well, a+b have IPv6), but
most sites don't. Thus maybe that can be done next year on the next IPv6
day? :)

At least one step closer, now lets hope that sites also keep that IPv6
address there.

Greets,
 Jeroen

--

$ dig @d.gtld-servers.net ns1.google.com aaaa

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @d.gtld-servers.net ns1.google.com aaaa
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16030
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns1.google.com.                        IN      AAAA

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
google.com.             172800  IN      NS      ns2.google.com.
google.com.             172800  IN      NS      ns1.google.com.
google.com.             172800  IN      NS      ns3.google.com.
google.com.             172800  IN      NS      ns4.google.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns2.google.com.         172800  IN      A       216.239.34.10
ns1.google.com.         172800  IN      A       216.239.32.10
ns3.google.com.         172800  IN      A       216.239.36.10
ns4.google.com.         172800  IN      A       216.239.38.10

;; Query time: 123 msec
;; SERVER: 192.31.80.30#53(192.31.80.30)
;; WHEN: Wed Jun  8 11:26:35 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 164

$ dig @d.gtld-servers.net ns1.cisco.com aaaa

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @d.gtld-servers.net ns1.cisco.com aaaa
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 55271
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns1.cisco.com.                 IN      AAAA

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
cisco.com.              172800  IN      NS      ns1.cisco.com.
cisco.com.              172800  IN      NS      ns2.cisco.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.cisco.com.          172800  IN      A       128.107.241.185
ns2.cisco.com.          172800  IN      A       64.102.255.44

;; Query time: 126 msec
;; SERVER: 192.31.80.30#53(192.31.80.30)
;; WHEN: Wed Jun  8 11:28:14 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 95




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