IPv6 Buzz 115: DNS And IPv6

In this episode, Ed, Scott, and Tom talk about DNS and IPv6. We cover legacy IPv6 brokeness and DNS, how DNS performs over v6, and how DNS works with v6-only networks. Thanks for listening! Sponsor: Dell Livestream Join the Packet Pushers and sponsor Dell Technologies on December 13th for a Livestream event on DPUs and the future of distributed infrastructure. We’ll have six short, informative sessions on topics including what network engineers need to know about DPUs, accelerating distributed workloads on DPUs, how VMware’s Project Monterey will affect infrastructure, and more. Sign up for this live, free event at packetpushers.net/livestream. Sponsor: Internet Society Getting Internet access from low-earth-orbit satellites has great promise for addressing the digital divide, supporting disaster response, and creating new opportunities for communication. If you’re curious how about these systems work as well as the technological, and policy implications download the free whitepaper “Perspectives on Low Earth Orbit Satellite Systems for Internet access” by the Internet Society. Just go internetsociety.org/packetpushers. Show Links: RFC 4074 – Common Misbehavior Against DNS Queries for IPv6 Addresses – RFC Editor Google IPv6 – Google Why Should We Separate A and AAAA DNS Queries? – Infoblox Microsoft Windows “DNS Policy for Applying Filters on DNS Queries” – Microsoft 2018 Global DNS Performance Report – ThousandEyes DNS Measurement, Troubleshooting and Security Auditing Toolset – DNSDiag farrokhi/dnsdiag – GitHub Your Hosts: * Tom Coffeen @ipv6tom * Scott Hogg @scotthogg * Ed Horley @ehorley