Re: [ga] Re: IPv6 and root servers

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephane - its good to see you don't get played the fool for too long.  
Yes Stephane your questions are very valid.  Where is the data from a 
real root server supporting these claims.
regards
joe baptista


Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 10:17:35AM +0100,
> Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
> a message of 13 lines which said:
>  
>
> >         [SAC021]: Survey of IPv6 Support Among Commercial Firewalls (5
> >         October 2007)
> >    
> Seems to have no relationship with the root name servers.
>
>  
>
> >         [SAC018]: Accommodating IP Version 6 Address Resource Records
> >         for the Root of the Domain Name System (23 March 2007)
> >    
> Mostly a theoretical analysis. Some tests of various systems were
> performed but I see no data from root name servers. That's a pity
> because one of the questions asked is "How prevalent is EDNS0?" and I
> see no measurement of the percentage of EDNS0 requests at a real root
> name server.
>
> Since I see many root name servers operators in the list of authors, I
> conclude they did not measure this or they do not wish to make it
> public.
>
>  
>
> >         [SAC017]: Testing Recursive Name Servers for IPv6 and EDNS0
> >         Support (12 February 2007)
> >    
> Same thing.
>
>  
>
> >         [SAC016]: Testing Firewalls for IPv6 and EDNS0 Support (30 January 2007)
> >    
> Again, no data from the real root name servers.
>
>
>  

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