On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 06:36:23PM -0700, Ca By wrote: > On Thursday, July 7, 2016, Spencer Ryan <sr...@arbor.net> wrote: > > > Dotted-quad notation is completely valid, and works fine. > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Presentation > > > > http://[::ffff:37.48.108.112] loads fine in my browsers. > > It may be legit on your network, but people generally don't do that.... If > they publish a aaaa record, it usually has a legit v6 address in it.
That is a legit IPv6 address. That it won't work on a host that is IPv6-only is a different issue, and one I agree is probably an unexpected and unwanted side effect. - Matt