Hello, Quote from Carlos Friacas: } But this raises me one more question: Does someone know if there are *any* } AAAA (glue-)records on that/(similar) zone(s) yet? I understand that "jp." has had IPv6 name servers for a while now. These are slightly abbreviated for ease of reading: % dig jp. ANY @ns0.nic.ad.jp ... ;; ANSWER SECTION: jp. 86400 IN NS ns0.nic.ad.jp. jp. 86400 IN SOA ns0.nic.ad.jp. bind-admin.nic.ad .jp. 2002120901 3600 900 604800 86400 jp. 86400 IN NS ns.wide.ad.jp. jp. 86400 IN NS ns0.iij.ad.jp. jp. 86400 IN NS dns0.spin.ad.jp. jp. 86400 IN NS ns-jp.sinet.ad.jp. jp. 86400 IN NS ns-jp.nic.ad.jp. ... ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns0.nic.ad.jp. 86400 IN A 202.12.30.131 ns.wide.ad.jp. 86400 IN AAAA 2001:200:0:1::4 ns.wide.ad.jp. 86400 IN A 203.178.136.63 ns0.iij.ad.jp. 86400 IN AAAA 2001:240::53 ns0.iij.ad.jp. 86400 IN A 202.232.2.34 dns0.spin.ad.jp. 86400 IN A 165.76.0.98 ns-jp.sinet.ad.jp. 86400 IN A 150.100.2.3 ns-jp.nic.ad.jp. 86400 IN A 61.120.151.100 ... % dig nl. ANY @ns.domain-registry.nl. ... ;; ANSWER SECTION: nl. 345600 IN NS ns.domain-registry.nl. nl. 345600 IN NS ns.ripe.net. nl. 345600 IN NS auth02.ns.uu.net. nl. 345600 IN NS ns2.domain-registry.nl. nl. 345600 IN NS sunic.sunet.se. nl. 345600 IN NS ns2.nic.fr. nl. 345600 IN SOA ns.domain-registry.nl. hostmaster.domain-registry.nl. 200212060 28800 14400 2592000 345600 ... ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns.domain-registry.nl. 345600 IN A 193.176.144.2 ns2.domain-registry.nl. 345600 IN A 193.176.144.130 ... % dig nl. ANY @sunic.sunet.se. ... ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns.domain-registry.nl. 345600 IN A 193.176.144.2 ns.ripe.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2001:610:240:0:193::193 ns.ripe.net. 172800 IN A 193.0.0.193 auth02.ns.uu.net. 516 IN A 198.6.1.82 ns2.domain-registry.nl. 345600 IN A 193.176.144.130 sunic.sunet.se. 86400 IN A 192.36.125.2 ns2.nic.fr. 31778 IN A 192.93.0.4 ... % CONCLUSION: Now that the ns.ripe.net contains an AAAA record, it too is starting to seep into the TLDs that ns.ripe.net is a secondary name server for. As was said, asking the root servers about "nl." still doesn't give any AAAA glue records. But why don't ns*.domain-registry.nl and auth02.ns.uu.net provide full glue records for the name servers? -- Aleksi Suhonen / Axu TM Oy