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From RFC8483 [0] "Yeti DNS Testbed", which was published a few hours ago:

> Yeti DNS is an experimental, non-production root server testbed that provides an environment where technical and operational experiments can safely be performed without risk to production root server infrastructure.

In section 5 they publish experience with their IPv6-Only operation.

For example:

> There are reports of a notable packet drop rate due to the mistreatment of middleboxes on IPv6 fragments. One APNIC study reported that 37% of endpoints using IPv6-capable DNS resolvers cannot receive a fragmented IPv6 response over UDP.

Or:

> It was observed that Yeti-Root servers running Knot 2.0 would compress the zero-length label (the root domain, often represented as ".") using a pointer to an earlier example. Although legal, this encoding increases the encoded size of the root label from one octet to two; it was also found to break some client software -- in particular, the Go DNS library. Bug reports were filed against both Knot and the Go DNS library, and both were resolved in subsequent releases.

0: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8483



> it was also found to break some client software -- in particular, the Go DNS library

The issue for the curious: https://github.com/miekg/dns/issues/234




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