Re: www.RT.com bad dns record

[Matt Palmer <mpalmer () hezmatt org>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 06:36:23PM -0700, Ca By wrote:
> On Thursday, July 7, 2016, Spencer Ryan <sryan () arbor net> wrote:
>
> > Dotted-quad notation is completely valid, and works fine.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Presentation
> >
> > http://[::ffff:37.48.108.112] loads fine in my browsers.
>
> It may be legit on your network, but people generally don't do that.... If
> they publish a aaaa record, it usually has a legit v6 address in it.

That is a legit IPv6 address.  That it won't work on a host that is IPv6-only
is a different issue, and one I agree is probably an unexpected and unwanted
side effect.

- Matt