Re: AAAA on various websites, but they all forgot to enable them on their nameservers....

[Daniel Espejel <daniel.unam.ipv6 () gmail com>]

Hi.

The main objective for today is to access the web services, that's why you
can't reach a AAAA record for a DNS query for a given NS server.


; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P3 <<>> www.google.com aaaa
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40029
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.google.com.            IN    AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com.        532907    IN    CNAME    www.l.google.com.
www.l.google.com.    150    IN    AAAA    2001:4860:4002:802::1010

; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P3 <<>> www.yahoo.com aaaa
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60816
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.yahoo.com.            IN    AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.yahoo.com.        284    IN    CNAME    fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com.
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com.    6    IN    AAAA    2001:4998:f00c:1fe::3001
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com.    6    IN    AAAA    2001:4998:f011:1fe::3001
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com.    6    IN    AAAA    2001:4998:f011:1fe::3000
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com.    6    IN    AAAA    2001:4998:f00d:1fe::3001
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com.    6    IN    AAAA    2001:4998:f00d:1fe::3000
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com.    6    IN    AAAA    2001:4998:f00c:1fe::3000
; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P3 <<>> www.facebook.com aaaa
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 12079
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.facebook.com.        IN    AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.facebook.com.    8    IN    AAAA    2620:0:1c00:0:face:b00c:0:1



; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P3 <<>> www.unam.mx aaaa
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42381
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 5

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.unam.mx.            IN    AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.unam.mx.        6031    IN    AAAA    2001:1218:1:6:d685:64ff:fec4:720b

You see? there's a lot of IPv6 activity since a few weeks ago. xD




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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:28:40 +0200
> From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen () unfix org>
> Subject: AAAA on various websites, but they all forgot to enable them
>        on their        nameservers....
> To: nanog <nanog () nanog org>
> Message-ID: <4DEF40C8.3020502 () unfix org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> It is really nice that folks where able to put AAAA records on their
> websites for only 24 hours, but they forgot to put in the glue on their
> nameservers.
>
> As such, for the folks testing IPv6-only, a lot of sites will fail
> unless they use a recursor that does the IPv4 for them.
>
> The root is there, .com does it mostly too (well, a+b have IPv6), but
> most sites don't. Thus maybe that can be done next year on the next IPv6
> day? :)
>
> At least one step closer, now lets hope that sites also keep that IPv6
> address there.
>
> Greets,
>  Jeroen
>
> --
>
> $ dig @d.gtld-servers.net ns1.google.com aaaa
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @d.gtld-servers.net ns1.google.com aaaa
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16030
> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4
> ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;ns1.google.com.                        IN      AAAA
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> google.com.             172800  IN      NS      ns2.google.com.
> google.com.             172800  IN      NS      ns1.google.com.
> google.com.             172800  IN      NS      ns3.google.com.
> google.com.             172800  IN      NS      ns4.google.com.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns2.google.com.         172800  IN      A       216.239.34.10
> ns1.google.com.         172800  IN      A       216.239.32.10
> ns3.google.com.         172800  IN      A       216.239.36.10
> ns4.google.com.         172800  IN      A       216.239.38.10
>
> ;; Query time: 123 msec
> ;; SERVER: 192.31.80.30#53(192.31.80.30)
> ;; WHEN: Wed Jun  8 11:26:35 2011
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 164
>
> $ dig @d.gtld-servers.net ns1.cisco.com aaaa
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @d.gtld-servers.net ns1.cisco.com aaaa
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 55271
> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
> ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;ns1.cisco.com.                 IN      AAAA
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> cisco.com.              172800  IN      NS      ns1.cisco.com.
> cisco.com.              172800  IN      NS      ns2.cisco.com.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns1.cisco.com.          172800  IN      A       128.107.241.185
> ns2.cisco.com.          172800  IN      A       64.102.255.44
>
> ;; Query time: 126 msec
> ;; SERVER: 192.31.80.30#53(192.31.80.30)
> ;; WHEN: Wed Jun  8 11:28:14 2011
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 95
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
-- 
*Daniel Espejel Pérez
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Dirección General de Cómputo y Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación.
Laboratorio de Tecnologías Emergentes de Red (NetLab).
GT - IPv6 UNAM , GT - IPv6 CLARA
http://www.netlab.unam.mx/*