From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 6 22:41:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C98716A419 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:41:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx24.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E759413C46A for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:41:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 12302 invoked by uid 399); 6 Feb 2008 22:41:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.8?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTP; 6 Feb 2008 22:41:24 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <47AA378A.1080701@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:41:14 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman References: <20080206212951.2FF9C4500E@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20080206212951.2FF9C4500E@ptavv.es.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Petri Helenius , FreeBSD Net Subject: Re: named.root X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:41:25 -0000 Kevin Oberman wrote: > Doug, > > This is both true and false because an IPv6 only DNS server (this may be > an imaginary entity) It is. Modulo some theoretical exercise being performed by people who are smart enough to know how to prime them already, there are no IPv6-only name servers. Even though the root is ready now, only 112 of the 281 TLDs have IPv6 glue of any sort. The IPv6-only Internet is a long way away. Now everything I just said will become less true going forward, which is why I said I will do the change request ASAP. But it's still not urgent, and any impact that not doing the change tomorrow might have is so minimal as to be basically immeasurable. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection