Subj : Nodes location. Funny statistics.
To   : Nick Boel
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Wed Aug 06 2025 10:20 am

Hello Nick,

On Tuesday August 05 2025 17:11, you wrote to me:

>> Then where do the AAAA records come from? Those AAAA records do not
>> fall out of the sky. AFAIK it always requires a premeditated affort
>> from the owner of the host name.

NB> Does every DNS provider make you manually setup an AAAA record? Or do
NB> some of them possibly have a default one in place just so that IPv6
NB> /works/ out of the box?

In the past, in the IPv4 only age, some providers here offered customers xxxx.provider.nl as a host name linked to their static IPv4 address. xxxx was for he customer to choose. That practise stopped over a decade ago and I do not see how that could be extended to IPv6 to "work out of the box". For IPv6 there usually is k\just one IP address and it points to the to of the customer's NAT. That would not work "out of the box" for running a server because the customer still had to configure a port forwward and possibly puncj hols in firewalls but it could be a start. Fo IPv6 there is not a single IP adres for the whole system. There is no way the provider would know what IPv6 address to proconfigure for it to "work out of the box".

I am still waiting for a sysops to report that their provider actually provides such a "service".

So the question "if the sysop is unaware that he/she has IPv6, where do these AAAA records come from" remains unanswered.

[..]

>> The vast majority of these attempt to contact the sysop fails. They
>> do not respond at all. :(

NB> So maybe they have it halfway setup, then.. and then decided they're
NB> too busy to pay attention to their services.

Possibly. So these nodes have become zombie nodes for all intents an puposes?

NB> I don't know, I've exhausted all of my ideas, and also realized I was
NB> trying to rationalize what others do entirely too hard on this. ;)

So have I. I have no idea what we can do to remedie the situation.


Cheers, Michiel

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