Re: Please, talk me down.

[Mike Lyon <mike.lyon () gmail com>]

Upgrade djbdns to support IPV6? Think there is a patch for it...

-mike

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On Oct 16, 2012, at 20:36, Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten
<joseph () josephholsten com> wrote:

> I want to like IPv6. I do. But I'm seriously considering turning off IPv6 support from our servers.
>
> First off, I'm using djbdns internally and it doesn't support AAAA records. So we really aren't using it internally.
>
> But today I noticed that we have a lot of traffic to our DNS cache, and started to investigate. Turns out that every 
> DNS request would start with one for the AAAA record. Ah, no luck. Maybe you forgot the search domain? Let's retry 
> that DNS request with that tacked on. Failed again? Meanwhile, lets simultaneously try for the AA record then. Repeat.
>
> I'm _this_ close to turning IPv6 off entirely. Anyone want to talk me off this ledge?
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