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Now that ICANN has added IPv6 name servers for the root zone, and that many registries have enabled IPv6 on their DNS servers, I thought it would have been easy to update the DNS records pointing to my domain to mention a IPv6-only DNS server. This way, we could have native name resolution end-to-end in IPv6. We are not there yet, it seems.

The web interface my registrar (Gandi) uses does not allow IPv6 addresses. Their support desk informed me that they do not yet handle IPv6 addresses in their web forms.

There is obvious workarounds, of course. One is to assign both a IPv4 and a IPv6 address to the DNS server, as long as it is in under another domain. However, if the DNS server is under the same domain, a glue record would need to be inserted in the TLD zone file. This is currently not possible, at least with the tools provided to the average domain name user.

I am really looking forward to the IPv6 workshop that ALAC is planning at the Paris meeting of ICANN next June and see with other constituencies how these showstoppers can be addressed.

By Patrick Vande Walle, All around Internet governance troublemaker. Visit the blog maintained by Patrick Vande Walle here.

Related topics: DNS, Domain Names, ICANN, IPv6, Top-Level Domains