[6bone] Re: reverse 6dns painful (was Re: reverse DNS consideredpointless)

[Jeroen Massar]

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Chuck Yerkes wrote:

> I gotta say, though, that it would be nice if BIND let you describe
> a zone file is "this is a reverse for BLAH" and let you put the
> address in FORWARD as we are used to seeing it:
> 9ffe:666::22
> 
> and let the damn parser turn that into what named wants to see.
> I've made enough typos doing reverse by hand and don't understand
> why I'm doing it.  (ok, now a perl script does it, but there's no
> reason for me to even store it like that in a file).

djbdns and PowerDNS (afaik) both do this already.
This is a tool option, not a protocol thing.
Next to that you might always be better of storing
your hosts in a database and generating everything
from that.

PS: 2001:db8::/32 is a documentation prefix, which
is also very handy in examples ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen

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