Re: v6 gluelessness

[Simon Leinen <simon.leinen () switch ch>]

Iljitsch van Beijnum writes:
> > Going back to operational issue (yes, incredible as it may seems, I
> > won't write here what I think of ICANN), there is a *technical*
> > solution to this issue, which is the one deployed by the
> > RIPE-NCC. Give a different *name* (and may be a different *IP
> > address*) to every ccTLD.

> This is suboptimal because it limits the opportunity for nameservers
> to measure RTTs and contact the fastest server.

Only if these nameservers do the Bad Thing and track responsiveness by
server name rather than by server address.

(I think a well-known DNS implementation does or used to do it this
Bad way, which was part of the reason that it sometimes locked on to a
server with an unreachable IPv6 address and a fast-responding IPv4
address - and of course it would always try the IPv6 address first )-:
-- 
Simon.