[6bone] Re: ip6 conversion script

[Daniel Schroder]

  Sorry .. I'm loosing the plot again .. is the road on ipv6.int or
  ipv6.arpa ?


--Daniel Schroder (Private email daniel@unix.os.org.za)
  Unix users .. South Africa

To	: Antonio Querubin
From	: Petr Baudis
date	: Sep 2
Address	: pasky@pasky.ji.cz

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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Petr Baudis wrote:

> 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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