[Outages-discussion] [outages] Google 8.8.8.8 Resolution of Route53 domains

[David]

On 2018-04-24 8:05 AM, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 03:54:03PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:47:56PM +0930,
>>   Joseph B <josephb at f-m.fm> wrote
>>   a message of 20 lines which said:
>>
>>> IPv6 capable networks were still able to reach the impacted Route53
>>> hostnames that had aaaa records published.
>>
>> Yes, but Google Public DNS has IPv6 and still was not able to resolve Route53
>> names.
> 
> Is it using IPv6 transport to do recursive lookups?

They have to, otherwise things like "ds.v6ns.test-ipv6.com" would not 
resolve for them at all (v6 only name servers).

> 
> gert
>