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Um…what’s a “AAA” record? Is that like a AAAA record, but for the elusive ipv5?
by ryancnelson 5y ago
Um…what’s a “AAA” record? Is that like a AAAA record, but for the elusive ipv5?
- kevincox 5y agoI learned that it was 4xA not 3xA years into my career during a job interview. It was a funny revelation because your brain doesn't deal with repetition well and in retrospect is made sense because IPv6 is 4x the size of IPv4.
- Jxl180 5y agoIt’s when a domain doesn’t quite have what it takes for the MLB.
- colejohnson66 5y agoTangent: why is it four ‘A’s? Why not just “A6”? Is there a technical reason?
- modshatereality 5y agowhat i tell myself is that it's because ipv6 uses 128 bits, vs ipv4 32 bit addresses. so its 4x V4 addresses. Still makes little sense, but at least it's something, heh.
- wahern 5y agoThere was an A6 record type (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2874.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2874.txt), but it was rejected (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3364.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3364.txt) in favor of the original AAAA record type (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1886.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1886.txt). Christian Huitema is listed as an author on both AAAA and A6 RFCs, so maybe they know why the AAAA identifier was originally chosen instead of A6. Unfortunately, Google doesn't provide any "AAAA" hits for their blog at https://huitema.wordpress.com/ https://huitema.wordpress.com/.
- mercurialfck 5y agoIt's what keeps your car insurance premiums high and has a TTL of 7-10 years. Alternatively: April 1 - New AAA records requires use of an approved, proprietary USB lava lamp for entropy. The similarly-new AA records are slightly larger, and fit in more powerful remotes. Rumors are there will be rechargeable AA and AAA records that delete themselves whenever their dial-home license expires or the CEO has to give testimony to Congress.