Re: AAAA records to be added for root servers

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com>]

On 6 jan 2008, at 22:00, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> The library
> I'm thinking of would also have to handle reachability
> checking - and as John said, would ideally also be stateful
> to avoid repeating the same timeouts.

I don't think the thing that we need most in this area is a library. I  
did some testing, and it seems that a sample program copied and pasted  
from the getaddrinfo man page (which ONLY does DNS lookups and nothing  
else) experiences the influence of RFC 3484. What we do need is the  
knowledge about connectivity and QoS of addresses. We don't have that  
today and we have no easy way of getting it.

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