[6bone] Fwd: BCP 80, RFC 3681 on Delegation of E.F.F.3.IP6.ARPA

[Jeroen Massar]

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Daniel Roesen wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 03:36:41PM +0100, Pim van Pelt wrote:
> > $Clueless-OS (RedHat)
> [...]
> > The resolver does not understand DNAME and (bug!) skips the whole
> > query alltogether returning error to the requesting program.
> > 
> > Conclusions:
> > * If you use DNAME, you are creating a potentially harmful situation for 
> >   any children you have that you are also slaving for. This is not the
> >   fault of DNAME, nor bind. Blame the broken DNS implementation (of which
> >   there's bound to be plenty around!)
> 
> Red Hat Linux uses the glibc, which uses the BIND 8 stub resolver.
> So the blame might be with the BIND 8 stub resolver, not "$Clueless-OS
> (RedHat)".

The bind8 stub resolver has been fixed for quite some time now. The
problem though is that they reverse-patched it so that ip6.int was
supported. The main reason for that being that ip6.arpa was not
available on the 6bone.... Note that this is the same problem many
implementations have, thus also Debian, SuSE etc. They will be fixed
ofcourse but one has to complain first ofcourse. The glibc resolver
does it correctly nevertheless ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen

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