Re: Connectivity to an IPv6-only site

[Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>]

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! :)

Jack