[dns-operations] DNS at FOSDEM 2016

[Robert Edmonds]

Shane Kerr wrote:
> Tony,
> 
> At 2016-02-03 11:10:53 +0000
> Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:
> 
> > Shane Kerr <shane at time-travellers.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > I was at FOSDEM 2016 last weekend, and wrote up a few of my
> > > observations around DNS there:
> > >
> > > http://dnsv6lab.net/2016/02/03/DNS-at-FOSDEM/  
> > 
> > Regarding the use of TinyDNS at Facebook, did they say anything about
> > using its "time to die" support for planned DNS changes?
> 
> It wasn't mentioned in the talk.
> 
> > Have they extended it to support IPv6?
> 
> It wasn't mentioned in the talk, but Facebook has supported IPv6 for
> several years, so presumably so.

They've supported IPv6 for HTTP for several years (since World IPv6
Launch day?), but it looks like they didn't bring up AAAA's for
a.ns.facebook.com, b.ns.facebook.com until August 2015.

(The 'a.ns', 'b.ns' pattern for nameserver names being the "We run
tinydns" signal...)

-- 
Robert Edmonds