make AAAA type the default for dig

[Paul Kosinski]

Has IPv4 faded away and I didn't notice? Unlike the well planned switch
to Area Codes, IPv6 is not backward compatible.

(The telcos would have gotten rather a lot of complaints if they said
every had to get a new telephone number, and also -- new telephones.)


On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 22:10:25 +1000
Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:

> 
> In message <f165d73a-ef43-a28e-758a-3a509eabc930 at sidn.nl>, "Marco
> Davids (SIDN)" writes:
> > 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?
> >
> > --
> > Marco
> 
> This would break too many scripts.  You can do this for yourself
> by setting the type in $HOME/.digrc
> 
> % cat ~/.digrc
> -t AAAA
> % dig isc.org
> ;; BADCOOKIE, retrying.
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.12.0-pre-alpha+hotspot+add-prefetch+marka <<>> isc.org
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1235
> ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL:
> 1
> 
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
> ; COOKIE: 3ababe63d14205ae8cec9f7659412776a8b43cb46b335466 (good)
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;isc.org.			IN	AAAA
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> isc.org.		6	IN	AAAA
> 2001:4f8:0:2::69
> 
> ;; Query time: 0 msec
> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> ;; WHEN: Wed Jun 14 22:09:26 AEST 2017
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 92
> 
> % 
>