Re: AOL breaking dns spoof protection

[Phil Rosenthal <pr () isprime com>]

dig www.aol.com. aaaa

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> www.aol.com. aaaa
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; res_nsend to server default: Operation timed out


I think that's your problem. It seems aol is not answering AAAA queries 
at all, when to be correct they should actually be sending back 
responses saying there is no AAAA record, so the client can then 
request an A record, and move on.

--Phil

On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 1:32 PM, Booth, Michael (ENG) wrote:

> I can't even load www.aol.com now that we're running both IPV4 and IPV6
> in the office.  nslookup just times out.  Does anyone else have this
> problem?
>
> Michael