ipv6 zone entries using A6?

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mon Nov 29 20:15:36 UTC 2004


> Hi,
> 
> the SUSE LINUX Admin guide says that "A6" is preferred over "AAAA" because th
> e
> latter is deprecated, yet BIND 9.2.3 and .4 only accept AAAA.
> An unimplemented feature on BIND's side, or (this one being reported already)
>  a
> documentation bug in the adminguide?

	A6 and bit-string labels got moved to experimental, see
	RFC 3363.  See also RFC 3364 and RFC 3596.

	Careful reading of RFC 3363 shows that DNAME still exists.
 
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