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IPv6-only networks are expanding, with draft-xie-v6ops-framework-md-ipv6only-underlay being a recent example. For IPv6-only networks to be widely deployable, software must be able to function in IPv6-only networks. However, according to RFC3901 BCP91, "every recursive name server SHOULD be either IPv4-only or dual stack." Meaning recursive resolvers should not be IPv6 only. This is because some authoritative servers do not support IPv6. In an experiment, 15% of the top 500 domains failed to be resolved by an IPv6-only resolver because the authoritative server was IPv4-only.
We propose an IPv6-only network-compatible recursive resolver implementation. With this implementation, the IPv6-only recursive resolver will be able to send queries to IPv4-only authoritative name servers. This is accomplished by the resolver converting IPv4 addresses to IPv6 by adding the Pref64::/n prefix, which instructs the NAT64 to convert the IPv6 packets to IPv4 packets.
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