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

[Colin Faber]

Jeroen Massar wrote:

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>>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
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This would be impractical as it would break the domain name format, 
[A-Za-z0-9.-]

>>and let the damn parser turn that into what named wants to see.
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Reversing IPv6 in software is not that hard, Why couldn't it go the 
other way? Have the parser take the officially blessed format and turn 
it into your non-standard colon variation.

>>I've made enough typos doing reverse by hand and don't understand
>>why I'm doing it.
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Don't do it by hand.

>>  (ok, now a perl script does it, but there's no
>>reason for me to even store it like that in a file).
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>djbdns and PowerDNS (afaik) both do this already.
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I disagree with with any popular DNS providing this feature as it 
promotes non-standard "standards" (think: Microsoft's active directory 
service)

>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.
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I agree with this =)

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