News item 2009-12-03 - Koos van den Hout

2009-12-03 9 months ago
So Google announce their public DNS servers. First thing I try:
koos@greenblatt:~$ dig +short @8.8.8.8 www.google.com aaaa
www.l.google.com.
Too bad! Do they support AAAA records at all?
koos@greenblatt:~$ dig +short @8.8.8.8 idefix.net aaaa
2001:888:1011::694
Yes. But according to the FAQ item on IPv6 it does not support IPv6 as transport at all. Weird for google to roll out a new service so close to the network and not support IPv6.
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IPv6 ready
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