In message <e7f58592-1570-494f-a530-97e54b8c0...@rrcic.com>, "John W. Blue" 
writes:
>
> Hello Marek,
>
> Do you have an IPv6 assignment?  If not, there is really no need to even
> be resolving AAAA records.  An overly simplistic description of a
> potential solution could be to just drop the incoming AAAA request via
> its hex value in much the same way rate limiting is done for the "any"
> query:
>
> -hex-string '|0000FF0001|'
>
> I don't know off hand what the hex value for AAAA is but it should not be
> too hard to find.
>
> John

Just dropping AAAA queries is a bad idea as most machines actually
have a AAAA addresses (loopback and linklocal) so just about every
application makes AAAA queries.  If you drop AAAA queries you slow
up every address lookup in your network.

Mark
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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