On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:41:58AM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
> response.  I don't understand exactly what the AAAA record is, but it
> looks like a dns lookup request from tcpdump.  If that's all that it is,
> then that's not really the (main?) problem.)

DNS records holding hostname->IP mappings are A records. They hold IPv4
addresses. IPv6 addresses have four times as many bits. The DNS record
holding the hostname->IPv6 mapping is an AAAA record.
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Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/
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 to the community.' -- RFC 1591, page 4: March 1994