IPv6 Pain Experiment

Fri Oct 4 02:11:57 UTC 2019

John Levine wrote:

>> Automatic renumbering involving DNS was important design goal
>> of IPv6 with reasons.
> 
> News flash: nobody used the A6 RRTYPE which was intended to support
> IPv6 renumbering.  In 2002, RFC 3363 made A6 experimental. In 2012,
> RFC 6563 made A6 historic.
> 
> These days we all use AAAA, and we assign static addresses to our IPv6
> servers.

FYI, A6 is totally useless for automatic renumbering.

							Masataka Ohta