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RFC 1886:DNS Extensions to support IP version 6
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query


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... IPv6 addresses[3] since applications assume that address queries return 32-bit IPv4 addresses ...
... Existing queries that perform additional section processing to locate IPv4 addresses are redefined to perform additional ...


... AAAA query ...
... An AAAA query for a specified domain name in the Internet class ...
... A type AAAA query does not perform additional section processing. ...


... MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING QUERY TYPES ...
... All existing query types that perform type A additional section processing, i.e. name server (NS ...
... mailbox (MB) query types, must be redefined to perform both type A and type AAAA additional section processing. These new definitions mean that a ...
... IPv6 addresses available locally to the additional section of a response when processing any one of the above queries. ...



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