[Gllug] DNS glue records

[Chris Bell]

On Tue 29 Apr, Robert McKay wrote:
> 

> 
> On a related topic, does anyone know of any registrars doing IPv6 glue?
> 
> A couple of weeks ago, I decided to register an IPv6 nameserver so I
> could play around with going IPv6 only (well sortof.. I'm using 6to4
> [3]).
> 
> I have accounts at a few different registrars but none of them seemed
> to allow entering an IPv6 address even although the verisign EPP
> system does. In the end I asked my friend who works at a registrar to
> hack my request into their system which he did by injecting commands
> into the verisign epp using a one-off perlscript :^)
> 
> I had a look and there's currently only 24[1] AAAA glue's in the .com
> zone. There's a few more in .net[2], but really I'm a bit disappointed
> by it and I suspect it is mostly because the registrars do not seem to
> support it yet.
> 
> Also, does anyone know what the situation with .uk is? I'm afraid I
> let my nominet membership lapse.  Does the automaton support AAAA glue
> yet?
> 
> 
> Rob.
> 


   Does it depend on new hardware capable of dealing with a much larger
address space? Will that new hardware appear when the BT "21st Century
Network" becomes generally operational?

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