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

Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> Wed, 28 August 2019 14:07 UTC

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