On Aug 8, 2023, at 11:27 AM, Florian Obser <florian+i...@narrans.de> wrote:
> 
> This introduced at least a nit

Yipes, very good points. 

> 
>   For example, consider an authoritative server named ns0.example.com
>   that is served by two installations (with two A records), one at
>   192.0.2.7 that follows this guidance, and one at 2001:db8::8 that is
>   a legacy (cleartext port 53-only) deployment.
> 
> It doesn't have two A records. It has an A and AAAA record.

Errr, yup!

> I know
> that Éric asked for a non-legacy IP example,

...and he's our AD...

> but I don't think this makes
> things better. I find it very confusing, usually the server would be
> dual stacked so why would it do different things depending on the
> address family? Maybe just go v6 only, thusly?
> 
>   For example, consider an authoritative server named ns0.example.com
>   that is served by two installations (with two AAAA records), one at
>   2001:db8::7 that follows this guidance, and one at 2001:db8::8 that is
>   a legacy (cleartext port 53-only) deployment.  A recursive client who
>   associates state with the NS name and reaches 2001:db8::7 first will

It is that uncommon for a name server to have one A record and one AAAA record? 
I'd rather not go all-IPv6 because some readers might think that the discussion 
is for v6-only systems. If possible, I'd rather just say "(with one A record 
and one AAAA record)".

--Paul Hoffman


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