Subject: Re: DNS resolver address filtering
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@netbsd.org>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/13/2005 16:32:01
--NMuMz9nt05w80d4+
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On 2005.08.05 01:52:22 +0000, Erik E. Fair wrote:
| We need a facility added to the resolver to filter the addresses
| it returns.
|=20
| I do not have IPv6 connectivity. Until I do, it is pointless for
| the apps to try any IPv6 addresses. I need a way to prevent the
| DNS resolver (probably with a directive in /etc/resolv.conf) from
| returning IPv6 addresses.
|=20
| One day, there will be IPv6-only sites. They will also need such
| a filter facility, to remove IPv4 addresses from the resolver
| response.
|=20
| Comments?

Related PR: http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=3D22761

		-- Rui Paulo

--NMuMz9nt05w80d4+
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (NetBSD)

iD8DBQFC/hJxZPqyxs9FH4QRAragAJ9DmEUEAbFwwm0bIquaM/fIh5CxcQCfauGg
xSOlccqzMc0EqQS+huNg8yQ=
=4MFW
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--NMuMz9nt05w80d4+--