[6bone] ip6.int or ip6.arpa or BOTH?

[John Fraizer]

OK. 

 (1) What is nibble format?
 (2) Why would the glibc maintainers drop looking in ip6.int when there is
no ip6.arpa for 3ffe::/16?

I just want reverse to work for our zones.

John

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Kimmo Suominen wrote:

> More recent versions of glibc only seem to look in ip6.arpa (e.g.
> glibc-2.2.4-24 from RHL).  Other systems only look in ip6.int
> (e.g. NetBSD).
> 
> I've been maintaining both ip6.arpa and ip6.int in nibble format, so
> that at least all local nodes will be able to resolve names.  I only
> edit files for ip6.arpa, and use a little Makefile to produce the
> ip6.int files.
> 
> It would be nice to have ip6.arpa for 3ffe::/16, too...  :-)
> 
> + Kim
> 
> 	IP6ZONES?=	\
> 			3ffe:507:184.rev \
> 			3ffe:1ce1:100.rev \
> 			3ffe:26ff:10.rev \
> 			3ffe:2900:b00c.rev \
> 
> 	.for d in ${IP6ZONES}
> 	all:: ${d:S/:/_/g}
> 
> 	${d:S/:/_/g}: ${d}
> 		-rm -f ${.TARGET}
> 		${SED} -e 's/ip6\.arpa/ip6.int/g' ${.ALLSRC} > ${.TARGET}
> 	.endfor