Re: "DNS-4to6 automatic mapping" - No more DNS-ALGs & 6then4 DNSqueries

[todd@fries.net]

So any app that needs to resolve things in a consistent manner must fork and
exec dig?

Nice.
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Penned by R?mi Denis-Courmont on 20071129 20:33.09, we have:
| Le Thursday 29 November 2007 20:28:33 todd@fries.net, vous avez ?crit?:
| > The use is, if I have some app that is generating reports or doing things
| > other than connecting to IPv6 addresses where returning IPv6 addresses
| > would be useful.
| >
| > Don't presume the only thing dns resolution is for is to connect to the
| > addresses being resolved.
| >
| > What if you want to debug the dns output of your dns server from a v4 only
| > node, but want to verify it's outputing v6 records?
| 
| Then you are probably capable of setting up OpenBSD, or alternatively using 
| ISC BIND dig to query AAAA, A and ANY RR types explicitly (or both).
| 
| > By your semantics, you'd not see the v6 on a v4 only node.
| 
| > I don't think this is right.
| 
| I *know* it's not right. However, I claim it's pragmatic.
| 
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