@misc{rfc7050, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 7050, howpublished = {RFC 7050}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC7050}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7050}, author = {Teemu Savolainen and Jouni Korhonen and Dan Wing}, title = {{Discovery of the IPv6 Prefix Used for IPv6 Address Synthesis}}, pagetotal = 22, year = 2013, month = nov, abstract = {This document describes a method for detecting the presence of DNS64 and for learning the IPv6 prefix used for protocol translation on an access network. The method depends on the existence of a well-known IPv4-only fully qualified domain name "ipv4only.arpa.". The information learned enables nodes to perform local IPv6 address synthesis and to potentially avoid NAT64 on dual-stack and multi-interface deployments.}, }