Hi all, We've noticed that some sites like news.bbc.co.uk are running broken DNS servers that return NXDOMAIN for AAAA queries rather than NOERROR with zero answers. The NXDOMAIN reply indicates that there are no records of any type for the requested name, which is clearly not true since A records exist and are returned with an A query.
Unfortunately, this means that applications that attempt AAAA queries are unable to resolve addresses that reside within these broken servers. And that includes WinXP with the IPv6 stack enabled. We would like to deploy IPv6 on Windows XP machines here, but our users complain loudly when they are not able to access BBC. Has anybody found a workaround for this problem? Judging by newsgroup messages, BBC has known about this problem for months and has neglected to fix it. At the very least, does anybody have an idea of how widespread is this problem? -Nathan -- +-------------------+---------------------+------------------------+ | Nathan Lutchansky | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Lithium Technologies | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's | | business on earth... I like a state of continual becoming, | | with a goal in front and not behind. - George Bernard Shaw | +------------------------------------------------------------------+
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