That sounds sad. Many stub resolvers are installed in small hardware device (for example, a home router), that may not support IPv6.
On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 5:37 PM Shane Kerr <sh...@time-travellers.org> wrote: > Stephane and all, > > On 30/12/2019 16.01, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 05:18:01PM +0300, > > Anand Buddhdev <ana...@ripe.net> wrote > > a message of 17 lines which said: > > > >> If your domain's authoritative name servers have only IPv6 > >> addresses, then your domain will not be resolvable by many resolvers > >> on the Internet, because many of them only have IPv4 connectivity. > > > > This was in 2014 but I'm not sure it changed a lot since: > > > > > https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephane_bortzmeyer/how-many-ripe-atlas-probes-can-resolve-ipv6-only-domain-names > > I just re-ran a similar test and got about a 71% success rate: > > https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/23732712/ > > While technically slightly better than 67% success rate measured 5 years > ago, to me this means that running an IPv6-only name server it is > basically not possible. > > I also ran a version using IPv6-enabled probes, and got an 89% success > rate: > > https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/23734035 > > I think that even 90% is still not good enough to allow you to run an > IPv6-only name server, at least for general Internet usage. 😞 > > Cheers, > > -- > Shane > _______________________________________________ > dns-operations mailing list > dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations >
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