Two updates from WIDE

[David Burgess]

Bruce Campbell wrote:
> 
> On a related note, APNIC is also putting the reverse delegations for IPv4
> and IPv6 as the matching in-addr.arpa and ip6.int domain objects into the
> APNIC whois database and generating the appropriate zone files daily.
> 
>         ie: whois -h whois.apnic.net 0.0.0.2.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.int
> 
> As IPv6 is relatively new, does anyone have comments on how to manage IPv6
> reverse delegations?  Bear in mind that a human editing the zone files is
> *not* an option ;) .

 There's a product called 'webmin' that manages IPv4 DNS entries (both
forward and reverse) which comes with source.  It could probably be
modified to include AAAA records and manage a reverse name pool with
very little overhead.  It's also inexpensive (free for now; low triple
digit $ in the future).