ip6.arpa

[Ben Clifford]

On Thu, 3 May 2001, Peter Bunclark wrote:

> One senses an undercurrent of politics.  The docs glowingly state how
> ip6.int is the way forward (eg in the ARM doc: ``While the use of
> nibble format to look up names is deprecated, it is supported for
> backwards compatiblity with existing IPv6 applications''), but there's no
> sign of it  actually happening.
> 
> Bit of a conflict there if the only method in service is deprecated.

It seems to be that way for A6 as well - BIND support for it, and not much
else, and not much motivation to change at the moment.

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