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Re: ICANN registrar supporting v6 glue?

  • From: Barrett Lyon
  • Date: Fri Jun 29 12:52:46 2007

One note here is that even though you can get glue into com/net/org
using this method, there is no IPv6 glue for the root yet, as such even
if you manage to get the IPv6 glue in, it won't accomplish much (except
sending all IPv6 capable resolvers over IPv6 transport :) as all

Unless I did this query wrong, you are absolutely right:

;.                              IN      NS
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       198.41.0.4
B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.228.79.201
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.33.4.12
D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       128.8.10.90
E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.203.230.10
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.5.5.241
G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.112.36.4
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       128.63.2.53
I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.36.148.17
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.58.128.30
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       193.0.14.129
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       198.32.64.12
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       202.12.27.33


I don't see any v6 glue there... Rather than having conversations about transition to IPv6, maybe we should be sure it works natively first? It's rather ironic to think that for v6 DNS to work an incumbent legacy protocol is still required. The GTLD's appear to have somewhat better v6 services than root:

A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.     172800  IN      AAAA    2001:503:a83e::2:30
B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.     172800  IN      AAAA    2001:503:231d::2:30

I'm pretty disappointed now,

-Barrett