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

[Peter Bunclark]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Colin Faber wrote:

> Jeroen Massar wrote:
> >
> >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
> >>
> >>
> 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.
> >>
> >>
> 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.
> >>
> 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).
> >>
> >djbdns and PowerDNS (afaik) both do this already.
> >
> I disagree with with any popular DNS providing this feature as it
> promotes non-standard "standards" (think: Microsoft's active directory
> service)
>
I agree with Chuck, and we were kind of getting there with the bitstring
proposed standard (but that is ugly, to say the least). Wouldn't it make
reverse tables just so much easier to view, debug, and yes, create by
hand, if you could do something like
+3ffe:1:2:3::4   PTR home.6bone.net

Pete.