ROOT hints "BEST PRACTICE"

[Chris Hills]

Kevin Darcy wrote:
>> but this one times out on those ipv6 dns boxes.
>>
> Hmmm... I don't have any problem with that, but then I don't have any
> IPv6 addresses defined on my boxes.

I have IPv6 with global addresses and it works fine here.

;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13847
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 19
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
[...]
;; Query time: 151 msec
;; SERVER: 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53(2001:503:ba3e::2:30)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 24 11:16:10 2008
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 604

P.S. How about adding the time zone to the output of dig ;-)