Subj : Re: List of IPv6 nodes
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Tue Apr 19 2016 07:27:00

-=> Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 MvV> Actually, no-one ever "applied" for inclusion in the list. The IPv6
 MvV> capable nodes have all been actively searched for.

Ahh OK, cool.  Just that I remembered you adding me after I mentioned I could
do IPv6. :)

 MvV> Kees van Eeten peridically runs a script that hunts for host names in
 MvV> the nodelist that have an AAAA record. When he finds a new one, het
 MvV> tells me and I try to make a binkp connect. If I succeed I add the node
 MvV> to the list. Some sysops may be on the list without knowing it.

Makes sense to me.

 MvV> If there is an AAAA record but no IPv6 connect, I contact the sysop and
 MvV> try to get him to get IPv6 working. Sometimes it works, sometimes it
 MvV> does not.

Yep, always worth a try.  And those with AAAA records and no IPv6 are a pain. 
One of my feeds was like that, as he was running two mailers, but only one
supported IPv6 (and guess which one I had to use initially!).  I helped him
rearrange his DNS to the IPv4 mailer only had an A record.  Yes, I know I could
have tweaked binkd.conf, but I feel these issues should be resolved (pardon the
pun!) at the source, where possible.


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