Youtube-over-IPv6

[Bill Owens]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:40:56PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Have you considered as a next step doing a little DNS magic such that if
> the DNS request comes in over IPv6 and the request is for AAAA that they
> are returned? I realize that v6 on the DNS network is not 100%
> determinative of v6 on the client network, but I would imagine that the
> correlation for this particular network characteristic is actually very
> high, and I think it would make a good next step in terms of rolling out
> to a slightly wider audience.

I'm not sure whether that correlation is actually valid (I have dual-stack resolvers that get lots of queries from v4-only clients), but in any case it won't work for Google as long as their nameservers are v4-only. . .

Bill.