Re: [DNSOP] Why would a v4 client send AAAA query?

the movie quote was a reminder to think a little bit about -why- things are
the way they are.  for most of the current list participants, IPv4 & IPv6
co-existence is the only multiple protocol environment they have ever seen.
for some, this is not the first time we have seen multiple protocols active
at the same time.

when you realize that DNS is, basically a query/response system that is
transport agnostic, the original question becomes moot.  I can put X.25,
NSAP, IPv4, IPv6, and a few other addressing formats into the DNS as data
which can be queried.  That in no way reflects the transport used to get to
the data.

(Joe, we should watch more movies together)

/Wm

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 7:07 AM Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> On 28 Aug 2019, at 01:55, Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 5:33 PM william manning <
> chinese.apricot@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > because the DNS systems have no idea what the application(s) will use
> the answer for.
> > > remember that data (A & AAAA) is the zone files is NOT the same as the
> address(es)
> > > with which an interfce may be configured.
> > >
> > > "Think before you ask these questions, Mitch."  - Chris Knight
> >
> > >> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 5:34 PM Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > Bill's answer was pithier, though.
> >
> > Oh. I don't get it. I believe the quote in Bill's message is from the
> 1985 movie "Real Genius", but I was only a small child when that film
> premiered.
>
> I wasn't referring to the movie quote (I am used to not understanding
> Bill's movie quotes) but rather the simple answer that "DNS systems have no
> idea what the application(s) will use the answer for".
>
> I have no idea what your subsequent comment means, sorry ("cc
> www-archive").
>
>
> Joe
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