[6bone] Re: ip6 conversion script

[Bill Manning]

	ip6.int - the original anchor for v6 space. All delegations
		can be found here.
	ip6.arpa - the more recent anchor for v6 space. Some delegations
		can be found here. Some v6 delegations will never be
		found here.



% 
%   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
% 
% (A good friend will bail you out of jail,But your
% best friend will be sitting next to you
% saying: 'That was f*cking awesome!)
% 
% 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
% > ;-).
% >
% > --
% >
% > 				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
% >
% > * ELinks maintainer                * IPv6 guy (XS26 co-coordinator)
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% > .
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% > .
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--bill