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General IPv6 Topics => IPv6 Basics & Questions & General Chatter => Topic started by: cconn on May 21, 2012, 08:10:31 PM

Title: face:b00c starting to publish AAAA "early"?
Post by: cconn on May 21, 2012, 08:10:31 PM
It seems facebook has started to publish AAAA on non-"whitelisted" DNS servers -


dig -t AAAA @4.2.2.2 www.facebook.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> -t AAAA @4.2.2.2 www.facebook.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15385
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.facebook.com.              IN      AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.facebook.com.       96      IN      AAAA    2a03:2880:10:8f01:face:b00c:0:25

;; Query time: 15 msec
;; SERVER: 4.2.2.2#53(4.2.2.2)
;; WHEN: Mon May 21 23:10:15 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 62


good to see considering it was "supposed" to re-occur only on June 6th.  Maybe they need some news to spur investment in their stock  ;D
Title: Re: face:b00c starting to publish AAAA "early"?
Post by: kasperd on May 22, 2012, 12:55:37 AM
Quote from: cconn on May 21, 2012, 08:10:31 PMIt seems facebook has started to publish AAAA on non-"whitelisted" DNS servers
I can confirm this observation. I tested with DNS servers on three different networks, none of which were whitelisted according to my knowledge. I also got AAAA records when doing the AAAA lookups directly to the authoritative servers from hosts, which were usually not DNS servers.

They still only have a AAAA record for www.facebook.com, I wonder when they will get a AAAA record for facebook.com and for their authoritative DNS servers.
Title: Re: face:b00c starting to publish AAAA "early"?
Post by: broquea on May 22, 2012, 01:40:11 PM
What does this thread have to do with the IPv6 certification topic?
Title: Re: face:b00c starting to publish AAAA "early"?
Post by: cconn on May 22, 2012, 07:51:17 PM
woops....wrong general forum  ???

it can be used now for the ping test in the certification?!  :P
Title: Re: face:b00c starting to publish AAAA "early"?
Post by: brad on May 22, 2012, 08:57:55 PM
Quote from: cconn on May 21, 2012, 08:10:31 PM
It seems facebook has started to publish AAAA on non-"whitelisted" DNS servers -

see considering it was "supposed" to re-occur only on June 6th.  Maybe they need some news to spur investment in their stock  ;D

As far as I know this was part of an early roll out for third party developers to deal with issues before the World IPv6 Launch day.