Public IPv6 DNS Servers

John Payne john at sackheads.org
Fri Dec 24 16:34:58 CET 2010



On Dec 24, 2010, at 7:06 AM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:

> x.ns.ntt.net and y.ns.ntt.net should take queries on v6 in your geographic region iirc. 
> 
> Keep in mind that once the cdns start rolling v6 you are going to want to use a closer dns server else your bits may go too far away.

Given that you'd be using those servers for both A and AAAA queries, you probably want to use a close DNS anyway, regardless of the state of CDN over IPv6. 

> (watching people muse about using google dns and poor akamai performance this week was amusing).
> 
> Jared Mauch
> 
> On Dec 24, 2010, at 2:08 AM, Florian Bauhaus <f.bauhaus at portrix-systems.de> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:40:03 +0100
>> Tord Førland <tf at nextgentel.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Are there others out there that may be reached via IPv6? Nice to
>>> have, when testing IPv6-only networks.. 
>> 
>> SixXS is offering some v6 only public DNS servers:
>> http://www.sixxs.net/tools/dnscache/
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Florian
> 


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