[dns-operations] Missing .us and GTLD records??

[Mark Andrews]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.1005191437470.19736 at server1.hal22.net>, Luis Uribarri
 writes:
> 
> This is sort of like the chicken vs. the egg thing.
> 
> My cruddy little DSL line does not have IPv6 transport, and it probably
> will not have IPv6 transport for many many years, (if at all).

You could turn IPv6 on today if you want to.  My cable line doesn't have
IPv6 native but I've had IPv6 for the last 7 years. It's do able and it
works well.
 
> So I have to just live with the fact that my DNS resolver will never be
> able to reach 'j.gtld.biz' & 'j.cctld.us'.
> 
> Although, if those servers had both IPv4 and IPv6 adresses, I could 
> reach them via IPv4 and still resolve IPv6 addresses.
> 
> Personally, I think that DNS "Authoritative Servers" should be the last 
> things that go IPv6 only, specifically becasue of the transport issues, 
> but I guess the TLD operators sees it differently.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 19 May 2010, Paul Vixie wrote:
> 
> >> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 01:03:07 -0500
> >> From: Michael Graff <mgraff at isc.org>
> >> ...
> >> I also think people are seeing that it isn't going to be a pure world
> >> for quite some time; IPv4 can't just be switched off, indeed may never
> >> be so.  However, for some, the reality of a IPv6 only service is
> >> suddenly becoming more likely.
> >
> > that's more or less what we said about PDP11 compatibility mode in the VAX,
> > and about 8086 compatibility mode in the 80386. yet, here we all are. i thi
> nk
> > that once things start to change they will change pretty quickly. and i've
> > still got some 2.5MByte "Hawk" disk packs i'd like to read if anybody's got
> > an old CDC drive and some kind of interface to it.
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