* Simon Perreault <si...@per.reau.lt> [2014-04-29 14:41]:
> Le 2014-04-28 18:53, Chris Cappuccio a écrit :
> >> Why is the burden on everyone to provide 'valid' objections? Should
> >> not the burden be on you to at least hint at a point to this change?
> >> Given the miniscule IPv6 usage out there, why should IPv6 come first?
> > 
> > I like how IPv6 support turns primary and secondary DNS caches from
> > a redundancy feature for clients to dual points of failure (for some
> > resolver implementations.) No response from either server for the first
> > AF you try? Just wait for a full time out before you try the second AF!
> 
> This is a valid point IMHO.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better if libasr would run A and AAAA requests in
> parallel? Whichever response arrives first "wins".

no, since that gives extremely unpredictable results.

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