make AAAA type the default for dig

Sam Wilson Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk
Wed Jun 14 11:18:25 UTC 2017


On 2017-06-14 10:45:30 +0000, Marco Davids (SIDN) said:

> Hi,
> 
> Not sure if this has been proposed before, but I am wondering:
> 
> Has ISC ever considered to change the default 'dig -t' option from A to AAAA?

Or a -H option to do both A and AAAA queries in a kind of Happy Eyeballs mode?

(Yes, I know about things like 
<http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-qtype-addr-01.txt> and 
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vavrusa-dnsop-aaaa-for-free-00>.)

Sam

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