IPv4 in IPv6 in AAAA records
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
itojun at itojun.org
Mon Aug 23 08:54:54 UTC 2004
> ::ffff/96 is the IPv4-mapped-IPv6 address prefix, it's intended use is
> to allow an IPv6 stack to forward IPv4 packets to an IPv6-listening
> service (for example NSD listening on :: on Linux will see packets
> from 193.1.193.194 as ::ffff:193.1.193.194).
IPv4 mapped address is an internal representation of IPv4 node (peer)
on a host operating system. it should not appear on DNS database.
itojun
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