Reverse DNS, IPv6

[Peter Tattam]

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Bruce Campbell wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Peter Tattam wrote:
> 
> peter> > On a related note, APNIC is also putting the reverse delegations for IPv4
> peter> > and IPv6 as the matching in-addr.arpa and ip6.int domain objects into the
> peter> > APNIC whois database and generating the appropriate zone files daily.
> peter> > 
> peter> > 	ie: whois -h whois.apnic.net 0.0.0.2.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.int
> peter> > 
> peter> > As IPv6 is relatively new, does anyone have comments on how to manage IPv6
> peter> > reverse delegations?  Bear in mind that a human editing the zone files is
> peter> > *not* an option ;) .  
> peter> 
> peter> BTW, on the reverse delegation issue, it was a hot issue recently on ipng.
> peter> Most of us are stuck with manual editing at the moment.  I believe there sin't
> peter> a real concensus yet on the best way to manage automatic delegation.   I can
> peter> send you some templates of what I do manually though.
> 
> After re-reading the ipng mails, the debate seemed to be more in dealing
> with reverse delegations for individual hosts.  My concern is more with
> the 'lofty' (so to speak) delegations as done by the registries, or by
> ISPs to customer sites.  I doubt that we'd would ever be using dhcp for
> such delegations (scary).
> 
> --==--
> Bruce.
> 
> Sysadmin, APNIC.
> 
> 

It would just be a matter of allocating according to the RFC's I guess.  Mind
you not being aligned to 4 bit boundaries is a right pain which is I guess your
question. Were they going to fix that?  It ended up being fixed in the 6bone.
Until A6 is available in software, things will be a bit of a pain. 

Peter

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