Re: (ngtrans) Joint DNSEXT & NGTRANS summary

[Alain Durand]

At 12:30 PM 8/15/2001 +0200, Johan Ihren wrote:
> > There's no reason why it can't be a gradual upgrade.  Authoritative
> > servers for zones with A6 can do AAAA synthesis at query time just
> > as easily as the local non-stub resolver can.  It becomes a server-side
> > indirection mechanism, which is available to A6-grokking caches.
>
>This is *wrong*.
>
>An authoritative, non-recursive server with only A6 fragments around
>can not synthesise the AAAA since that would require it to query for
>missing fragments.

Those fragments could be provided (or queried) when the server is started.

         - Alain.