Why “aaaa” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Yeah I had later noticed that too. Much of the US companies do end up resolving to IPv6. 100% of the aforementioned US gov domains resolve to IPv6. More 5G networks than not are…
by jon128 · Oct 30, 2026
Google publish a per-country latency comparison[1]. Typically v6 is slightly faster. (Also, usage is in fact 50% on average.) But in general, it's mostly because v4 and v6 can e…
by Dagger2 · Oct 30, 2026
(I work on performance tuning a browsers happy eyeballs implementation) Especially for DNS, browsers don’t wait “very long” for the AAAA (v6) record to be resolved when they alr…
by omansfeld · Oct 30, 2026
I am in the same situation. However, I have found that there's a workaround/hack to make Android 'think' it has IPv6 connectivity. Instead of routing ::/0 through your…
by jodersky · Oct 30, 2026
user@host:~$ dig +short aaaa www.citi.com san.www.citi.com.edgekey.net. e16976.x.akamaiedge.net. user@host:~$ dig +short aaaa www.walmart.com www.walmart.com.cdn-wal.net. You sh…
by jon128 · Oct 30, 2026
2002:db8::1 Ah, so this is in the range assigned to 6to4 (2002::/16). Both Windows 10 and Android seem to treat it specially, [0] but Linux does not. So, I changed the AAAA…
by simoncion · Oct 30, 2026
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