Geographic map of IPv6 availability

Mon Oct 15 09:50:16 UTC 2007

On 15/10/2007, at 8:24 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:

> [moresnip]
>
> The way I read the portion of the thread related to resolver behavoir
> was that the resolver behavior was being discussed. Not the client.
> The resolver should have an attribute to select the preference between
> A vs. AAAA. Otherwise, it's setting network policy through code.
>
> My question was if there is an option to adjust this, where is it? I
> don't see it. I'm not a BIND uber-expert. If there is no option, there
> quite possibly ought to be one.

I guess the question could also be asked as to whether BIND honours  
the host's configuration of the address selection policy - which  
seems more likely than implementing it itself.

For those who missed it - OS level address selection policy won't  
apply to BIND without specific code, as BIND is a recursive resolver  
so won't be calling getaddrinfo(3).

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Nathan Ward