From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 6 23:27:22 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 47BD916A420; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 23:27:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=63455f5d3e5ea1f4218cbc02546b3f10163d38ae=603=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal3.es.net [IPv6:2001:400:14:3::8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A39A113C465; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 23:27:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=63455f5d3e5ea1f4218cbc02546b3f10163d38ae=603=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP (SSL) id MZH46819; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:27:19 -0800 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 6B9A94500E; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:27:18 -0800 (PST) To: Doug Barton In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:41:14 PST." <47AA378A.1080701@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1202340438_51442P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:27:18 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20080206232718.6B9A94500E@ptavv.es.net> X-Sender-IP: 198.128.4.29 X-Sender-Domain: es.net X-Recipent: ; ; ; X-Sender: X-To_Name: Doug Barton X-To_Domain: freebsd.org X-To: Doug Barton X-To_Email: dougb@FreeBSD.org X-To_Alias: dougb 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 23:27:22 -0000 --==_Exmh_1202340438_51442P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:41:14 -0800 > From: Doug Barton > > 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, I agree. That's why I said that it is not high-priority, but I wanted to make people aware that this was not just the usual case when a root server moves to a new address. I do suspect that there may be real IPv6 only DNS servers out there, but, if they exist, they are probably in China and will never point at the real root servers. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1202340438_51442P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFHqkJWkn3rs5h7N1ERAp2WAJ9r2SQp/W7q8c4v9UU83c9zvL2ewgCdHvNs LD5uhNrPKEYMFRfBVJ20zmU= =Otwe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1202340438_51442P--