[Dnsmasq-discuss] Bug while using address=//::

Geert Stappers stappers at stappers.nl
Thu Sep 30 05:17:49 UTC 2021


On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 09:15:15PM -0700, E wrote:
> > IPv6 connectivity
> 
> Why dnsmasq can't drop AAAA,
> when the server has no IPv6 connectivity at all?
> This doesn't make sense.

No sense to those would don't understand what DNS is.
(DNS is a key value database (which is distributed))


> Something like "no-ipv6" or "ipv4-only" switch
> would be really nice here...

Nice is how people should behave.

Computers and other tools are blunt, rude, straight down and such.


Please understand that querying an AAAA record
is the very same as querying an TXT, MX or A record.
It doesn't mather if the request travels
over IPv6 or IPv4.


And other please, an pretty please:

   Embrace evolution
   Embrace mental growth



Groeten
Geert Stappers

P.S.  To those who feel insulted by this posting
  Consider the suffering when being ignored
-- 
Silence is hard to parse
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