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Re: Mass ipv6 lookups



On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Daniel Taylor wrote:
> > Well, for those preferring to run over IPv6 it does make sense to
> > do the AAAA lookup first. If there is no AAAA record, then an A
> > record lookup occurs.
>
> No it doesn't. If you know you are dealing with an IPv4 socket it makes
> no sense to do an AAAA lookup at all.
>
I may have misinterpreted something, but if you have a client that is
enabled on IPv6 and IPv4 how does it know before it does the lookup?

-- 
Daniel Taylor
dtaylor@vocalabs.com



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