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Gert Doering gert at space.net
Thu Jul 21 13:33:56 CEST 2011


Hi,

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:30:30PM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> And timing wise they should come back at the same time from the same
> server. I am still a bit confused about how when you do both an AAAA and
> then an A request, that the A request answer could come back quicker
> than the AAAA one, especially given that one is querying the same remote
> server, but I must be missing something silly there ;)

If the query goes through intermediate caches, and someone *else* queried
for "just A" before you, that could explain things...

Otherwise, hard to see a reason, yes.

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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