Subj : Re: Nodes location. Funny statistics.
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Nick Boel
Date : Tue Aug 05 2025 17:11:49

Hey Michiel!

On Tue, Aug 05 2025 03:32:22 -0500, you wrote:

 > Then where do the AAAA records come from? Those AAAA records do not 
 > fall out of the sky. AFAIK it always requires a premeditated affort 
 > from the owner of the host name.

Does every DNS provider make you manually setup an AAAA record? Or do some of them possibly have a default one in place just so that IPv6 /works/ out of the box?

 > Did I mention that when I come across such a situation I always try 
 > to contact the sysop in order to try to help hem/her fix the problem?

Yes, you did.

 > The vast majority of these attempt to contact the sysop fails. They 
 > do not respond at all. :(

So maybe they have it halfway setup, then.. and then decided they're too busy to pay attention to their services.

I don't know, I've exhausted all of my ideas, and also realized I was trying to rationalize what others do entirely too hard on this. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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