>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Haight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    Peter> I'm going to try Terry's solution and try and do concurrent
    Peter> lookups. Mozilla is already using pthreads, so I should be
    Peter> able to just spawn the two requests in separate threads and
    Peter> take the one that comes back first. I may even spawn the IPv6
    Peter> one a little earlier to give it a slightly better chance of
    Peter> coming back first.

You would do everyone a favour by notifying those sites that don't
handle IPv6 DNS queries properly. In many (most) cases the sites aren't
aware that their DNS software is broken. A quick e-mail will often see
the problem fixed in short order. (bbc.co.uk is a recent example of
this.)

--lyndon

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