Carl Hartung wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2012 16:54:36 -0400 James Knott
wrote: Carl Hartung wrote:
So the server sends back two records instead of one, and the client just discards the one it can't use. That's not very efficient (stupid server!)
How is the server to know whether the requester can use IPv6 addresses?
An IPv6 capable requester will use the DNS server's IPv6 address.
Requester = application - which could very well be IPv6-capable, regardless of whether the platform is or isn't. The requester simply asks "give me all addresses for <blah>".
Any requester directing it's inquiries to the server's IPv4 address could be presumed incapable of using IPv6.
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