bug (or lack of feature) in the whois robot

[Pim van Pelt]

Dear 6bone folk,

Recently I stumbeled across a peculiarity while mailing an object
to the 6bone registry mailinterface.

Normally, when one enters a tunnel into the system, the robot will
try to resolve the IP numbers transforming
  tunnel: IPv6 in IPv4 212.19.192.221 -> 193.10.252.34 NORDU-NET BGP4+
into
  tunnel: IPv6 in IPv4 biscuit.intouch.net -> nw-gw.nordu.net NORDU-NET BGP4+

First off, when is the 'native' field planned on being operational ?

The only method of describing a native link is by specifying an IPv6 in IPv6
tunnel (which is, of course, not the same as a native link). Anyway, when one
specifies IPv6 addresses via the:
  tunnel: IPv6 in IPv6 2001:7f8:1::a500:8954:1 -> rtr6.ams-ix.net AS1200 BGP4+
the robot will reply with a syntax error:

*ERROR*:      syntax error in destination hostname (2001:7f8:1::a500:8954:1)
  specified in "tunnel" (IPv6 in IPv6 2001:7f8:1::a500:8954:1 ->
   rtr6.ams-ix.net AS1200 BGP4+)
*ERROR*:      Please specify a valid domain name

May I suggest accepting IPv6 number addresses and also enabling/implementing
the 'native' field as more and more IX:en start growing to a production level.

I can help coding if this is needed, David.

groet,
Pim
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