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

[Jeroen Massar]

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Peter Bunclark wrote:

> 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

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That is a tool problem, create a simple script that makes reverses for you.

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djbdns and PowerDNS are such tools which allow that.
Microsoft's DNS server btw allows registration, so does BIND,
but in Windows it is on per default for domains + dhcp.

Hint: Long live SQL (and that fancy ip6_int.pl script ;).

> Colin Faber wrote:
> > >Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> > Jeroen Massar wrote:
> > >>  (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)

You actually mean "I hate microsoft" as Dynamic DNS is a standard.
FYI: http://ops.ietf.org/dns/dynupd/secure-ddns-howto.html

(Repeat again ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen


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