filter-aaaa-on-v4 does not filter AAAA if there is no existing A Record with the same FQDN - working as designed?

[Mark Andrews]

In message <823d435a-eff7-48eb-b99f-b0e36c2323e5 at googlegroups.com>, addie write
s:
> So we can assume that this is working as designed?!
> However, it would be very interesting to know why this policy does not filter
>  AAAA Records when there is no A record. From my point of view this policy is
>  useless.
> If we want to prevent clients from receiving any AAAA Records for every case,
>  there should not be any exception. Are there any critical side effects that 
> I disregard?

In reality this shouldn't be needed at all.  This is a workaround
for a broken IPv6 stack (network/OS/application).  Your network
layer should be telling the applications that IPv6 destinations are
unreachable and they should be moving onto the next address.

If there is no A record then there is no fallback possible so there
is no need for the workaround.  What harm is there in returning the
AAAA?  All you get is a reminder to fix your network / application
/ OS if a failure takes a long time to be reported.

Mark

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