Re: [ipv6-wg@ripe.net] Re: 9/9/2004 IP6.INT Removal (Was: 9/9/2006 : ip6.int shutdown?)

[kawamura seiichi <s-kawamura@ak.jp.nec.com>]

David,

Thank you very much!

>A cleaner option might be to tell your recursive name server that
>it is authorititive for ip6.int and give it an empty zone (this is
>what I do for zones that have problems with AAAA lookups). This
>prevents it having to time out.

I think this is the quickest and the more cleaner answer.
I was debating weather to do this or not since 
it would leave an "odd" record in the nameserver files, but
it feels a little bit more warm and fuzzy when I have 
confirmation :-)

thanks again.
------
Seiichi


2004/08/20 12:05:22 +0100にDavid Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>さんに頂いた
「Re: [ipv6-wg@ripe.net] Re: 9/9/2004 IP6.INT Removal (Was: 9/9/2006 : ip6.int shutdown?)」への返事です。
>On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 07:40:46PM +0900, kawamura seiichi wrote:
>> (First time writing to this Mailing list)
>> Are there any temporary solutions to this ip6.int.
>> broken problem? or do we just have to wait until 9/9?
>> Some applications keep asking for ip6.int. and 
>> servers not responding cause delays to the application services.
>
>If you have access to the C libraries or whatever is generating the
>lookups, it should be easy enough to edit the source or binary edit
>the library to look up something else that will fail quickly rather
>than time out.
>
>A cleaner option might be to tell your recursive name server that
>it is authorititive for ip6.int and give it an empty zone (this is
>what I do for zones that have problems with AAAA lookups). This
>prevents it having to time out.
>
>	David.
>