Subject: RE: [PATCH] Ignore non-functional IPv6 DNS servers reported by Windows

RE: [PATCH] Ignore non-functional IPv6 DNS servers reported by Windows

From: Bert Belder <bertbelder_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:25:47 +0200

> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-ipngwg-dns-discovery-03.txt
>
> section 2 tells what those are. not sure what c-ares whould do with these
> though.

Well, if these addresses would generally (or even, ever) work then maybe c-ares should try to use them.
However, before we used this patch in node we would every now and then get a bug report about IPv6 dns resolution being super slow. After we included this patch, I've never had any complaints.

- Bert
Received on 2012-08-17