Re: Connectivity to an IPv6-only site

[Stephen Sprunk <stephen () sprunk org>]

On 24 Apr 2010 16:15, Jack Bates wrote:
> Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> > No, the problems are probably further back in time. We first started
> > turning up IPv6 back in 1997 or so.  There's a *very* good chance
> > that we turned it off a decade ago (or whenever people *first*
> > started listing quad-A's in NS entries) due to breakage and never
> > actually revisited it since then.  This would have been in the era of
> > early 6bone and "your IPv6 connection is probably tromboned through
> > Tokyo".
>
> I periodically see issues with idiotic load balancers that don't
> respond to anything except A records for specific domains. This causes
> problems when requesting AAAA records and delays waiting for timeouts
> before going to A. newegg fixed theirs though, yipeee! :)

Don't forget the hotspot vendor that returns an address of 0.0.0.1 for
every A query if you have previously done an AAAA query for the same
name (and timed out).  That's a fun one.

S

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