Re: [dnsext] draft-li-dnsext-ipv4-ipv6 -- a more versatile proposal

[Andrew Sullivan <ajs@shinkuro.com>]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 09:35:56PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:

> what a terrible idea.  we're not going to add yet another query before
> the start of every tcp/ip session.  the way to handle this is to include
> AAAA as additional data in A responses, and include A as additional data
> in AAAA responses.

So why doesn't this happen today?  What caused us not to choose that
path in the past?  (Something must have, but I've been unable to
figure out what.  I'd sure like to know, however, because I'm busy
having arguments over in behave about a related topic.)

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