Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 11:17:36 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Subject: Re: IPv6 Glue Records at Dotster / Domain.comOpensrs also suffers from lack of v6 glue disease. Last I saw on their
forums it said "coming soon" for about a year.
IBTD. We register our domains with them (Tucows/OpenSRS) and we got the entry, but you have to contact support and it is done manually. Check my domain hotze.com for proving it.
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hotze.com / AS8596
Martin Hotze wrote:
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 11:17:36 -0400 From: Jared Mauch
<jared@puck.nether.net> Subject: Re: IPv6 Glue Records at Dotster /
Domain.comOpensrs also suffers from lack of v6 glue disease. Last I saw on
their forums it said "coming soon" for about a year.IBTD. We register our domains with them (Tucows/OpenSRS) and we got
the entry, but you have to contact support and it is done manually.
Check my domain hotze.com for proving it.
I concur with this. I just finished up bolting V6 glue to a few of my domains to test and see how they handled it. They took care of it within a few hours of sending the request.
What proved to be more disturbing was the response I got from an exit survey I'd filled out from a registrar I was transferring domains out from (due to lack of V6 support). I'd told them as such, and got the response that while they were, in fact, working on updating their DNS/domains handling to deal with IPv6, they *had not considered glue records to be part of that*, AND as a result of my feedback they were adding handling such to their project.
This is an established registrar that I'd been dealing with for years, they're not exactly fly-by-night. I have to give them credit for admitting it wasn't something they'd considered and were adding it, but still terrible they hadn't even thought of something as basic as IPv6 DNS glue until I mentioned it.
The OP in this thread said "This seems a kooky reason to change registrars." At this point and time, I consider that any registrar that can't handle IPv6 to be one that's worth transferring away from and not giving any new business to, assuming one is in the process of deploying IPv6 across their infrastructure.
Perhaps economic pressure will be a good enough reason for the registrars to actually get moving and make progress with better support. OpenSRS kept my business because they at least have a mechanism for handling glue, albeit not an automated one.
Ah, that's good to know. I have a handful of domains through OpenSRS and
in the past they have not been responsive to IPv6 glue inquires. I'll
give them another go around.
~Seth
Appears someone just posted that to the thread. Sorry, I've not considered that their "official" thread where their EVP says "oops, we've dropped the ball" would not hold better data in this case.
Either way, it's lingered on for a year and I hesitate to go through a manual process at this point with a registrar in 2010 to add this glue. Once someone gets back my AA answer, they will have the AAAA address at this point, and can utilize that. It will not drive as much v6 traffic as if the glue were there, but at the same time, I guess I need to move my business elsewhere.
Not something I'm looking forward to moving, but I guess it's about time.... I've given them a year to demonstrate progress. It's not like they have to IPv6 enable anything other than their database
I'm sure one of my "dns buddies" will offer me a deal to move my domains to them.
- Jared
It only took me one or two E-mails to OpenSRS to get the glue records done.
(But - Disclosure - I am an OpenSRS Reseller). Response was polite, but not
super swift, but I was not in a hurry.
Hmm, transaction id, security code, a 21 minute hold time with GoDaddy, and
two dozen Danica Patrick pictures and I am quickly realizing that this glue
is going to be much more costly than the ~$8 transfer fee.
-Ryan