Re: IPv6 readiness and tinydns.

Strictly speaking, you don't ever need IPv6 addresses in MX or NS records.
They don't actually reference any IP, they reference a hostname, with
an optional ip.
This results in a MX/NS record being generated (mapping domain to
hostname), and optionally an A record to map that hostname to an IP.

As such if you're like me and never pass in an IP in the MX or NS
record, then you're already good to go.

Basically split your MX/NS records into MX/NS records and A records,
and then add AAAA records.  Or even without splitting just add AAAA
records.

[ie. all you are losing is not particularly useful syntactic sugar]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 08:34, Russell Sutherland
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am attempting to prepare our infrastructure here to be IPv6 ready.
> Part of that is DNS. For several years we have used the fefe.de patch to
> serve up AAAA records for several sub-domains. In the documentation it
> states explicitly that:
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0.... tinydns-edit won't accept IPv6 addresses for NS or MX r=
ecords yet
>
> So my short question is, can one use a patched version of tinydns to full=
ing
> support an IPv6 environment?
>
> <snip>
> On 2008-01-12 Russ Nelson wrote:
>
> =C2=A0 "When Google has an AAAA record, we can talk about adding IPv6 sup=
port."
>
> I think we are ready to start talking:
>
> =C2=A0 http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/faq.html
> </snip>
>
> --
> Russell Sutherand =C2=A0I+TS
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