> A DNS lookup with a QTYPE of A returns ALL of the A records the queried serv$
...and, if it doesn't have any and doesn't have a cached indicating that there aren't any (and recursion is being provided) it will go and look up what it can find. Right. > There is NOTHING in the DNS protocol for a client to signal that it prefers $ Isn't that what the QTYPE is for? As far as I can tell, the only way to ever get both A and AAAA in the answer section to a single query is to query for type ANY, which isn't usually done because of the way ANY queries interact with caches. > BTW, it's "IP address" not "IP". I think I disagree. Adjectives (and nouns functioning as adjectives), in the presence of sufficient context to disambiguate, not infrequently have the noun they're modifying stripped for brevity. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
