in the case of "B" - you would have only gotten "A" records prior to 04feb2008.
--bill On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:59:38PM -0500, Jeffrey S. Young wrote: > Prior to 4 Feb, quite a few of the root servers had listed IPv6 > addresses > (see http://www.root-servers.org). I took this announcement to mean > that > IPv6 information would now (after 4 Feb) be included in downloaded > copies > of root hints. Delays, studies, byte limits, all that stuff... > > I assumed that if placed the IPv6 addresses in my own local copy of root > hints and I queried one of the root servers, "B,F,H,K,or M" for > instance, with > an IPv6 only host I would get an answer that included AAAA (and A) > records > prior to 4 Feb. > > It's a minor nit, I know, but is this correct? > > jy > On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Dan York wrote: > > >Yes, and I realized after sending this that what I had seen earlier > >(that I mentioned at the end of my note) was just the announcement > >on January 4th that the root servers would be updated on February 4th. > > > >Dan > > > >On Feb 5, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: > > > >>2008/2/4 Dan York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> FYI, Richard Stiennon at ZDNet noticed that the root servers > >>>will be > >>>IPv6-accessible and refers to it as the "Birth of IPv6": > >>> > >>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=527 > >>> > >>>He was pointing over to the BBC article about this: > >>> > >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7221758.stm > >>> > >>>(I thought the AAAA records had gone up into the root servers a > >>>few weeks > >>>ago so I was surprised to read that it was only today (assuming > >>>the articles > >>>are accurate, of course).) > >>> > >>>Dan > >> > >> Coincidentally, there was another ZDNet article I had read > >>earlier > >>today entitled "ICANN turns on next-gen IP addresses". > >> > >> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6229218.html > >> > >>-- > >></Dan> > >> > >>Daniel P. Brown > >>Senior Unix Geek > >><? while(1) { $me = $mind--; sleep(86400); } ?> > > > >-- > >Dan York, CISSP, Director of Emerging Communication Technology > >Office of the CTO Voxeo Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Phone: +1-407-455-5859 Skype: danyork http://www.voxeo.com > >Blogs: http://blogs.voxeo.com http://www.disruptivetelephony.com > > > >Bring your web applications to the phone. > >Find out how at http://evolution.voxeo.com > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Ietf mailing list > >Ietf@ietf.org > >http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@ietf.org > http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf -- --bill Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise). _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
