Roy Arends writes: > But there are some instances that emit A6 outside of the 8.3/9.2 > set.
Not what I see. I looked at the most active sources of A6 queries in a trace of 100'000 UDP DNS requests to a TLD server here. For many of the queriers, I was unable to determine the software versions, but those that did tell me a BIND version, all except two claimed to be 9.2 or 8.3 versions. The two exceptions claim to run 8.2.2-P1 - those are somewhat strange, because I didn't think 8.2.2 had A6 support. $ tshark -n -r ~/dns/dns-query-trace.pcap | awk '/query A6 / { print $3 }' > ~/dns/a6-query-sources.txt $ for x in `sort -n ~/dns/a6-query-sources.txt | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -50 | awk '{ print $2 }'`; do dig +short @$x chaos txt version.bind.; done "9.2.2" ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached "9.2.4" "surely you must be joking" "9.2.2" "9.2.6-P2" "Public DNS server v28.3.2. Keep your hands off!" "9.2.5" "9.2.3" "not available" ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached "ZZZ" "9.2.6" "DNS server" ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached "8.2.2-P1" "8.3.3-REL-NOESW" "9.2.8" ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached "9.2.4" "ip-plus" "9.2.2" "DNS Server" "9.2.3" "8.2.2-P1" ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached "Nice try..." ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached "9.2.1" "9.2.4" "9.2.6-P1" "9.2.6" "9.2.8" "9.2.4" ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached "ip-plus" ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached "8.3.3-REL" "None of your business" ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached "DNS" ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached "9.2.8" "None of your business!" "9.2.3" -- Simon. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop