[6bone] Re: ip6 conversion script

[Petr Baudis]

Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 09:56:50PM CEST, I got a letter,
where Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net> told me, that...
> On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> The ability to do this is already built-in to more recent OS host commands
> (eg FreeBSD).

Yes, but ie. BIND8 has still many users.

> Also, there are PERL modules that already handle IPv6 transparently such as
> Net::IP.

That's good for them.. but basically, this still works and people are used to
it ;-).

> Some of these are lagging though as they're still outputting ip6.int instead
> of ip6.arpa but that should change over time.

That I consider a Good Thing (tm), from my egoistic 6bone-user point of view
;-).

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