[6bone] Re: ip6 conversion script

[Petr Baudis]

Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 01:30:10PM CEST, I got a letter,
where Sam Bingner <sam@dhs.org> told me, that...
> I attached a little conversion tool written in perl to take as an argument a
> regular ip6 address like 3ffe:2900:b::1 and output the ip6.int address and
> full ipv6 address.
> 
> Don't know if you guys will find a use for it, but trying to figure out what
> to put in DNS files gave me a headache ;)

Only FYI, there already exists similiar tool by Keith Owens named ip6_int,
available ie. at http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/tools/ip6_int, which does
basically the same, but has less sophisticated output; on the other hand, it
can be conviently used as host -a `ip6_int 3ffe:1234::1`, which is big
advantage.

Maybe you could extend your tool to take some special parameter defining output
type, and assume the "short" output type when called as ip6_int? Then this tool
would probably definitively become fully backwards-compatible superior for
ip6_int and maybe NetBSD and other people would even include it instead of the
original ip6_int.

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