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Re: Reverse DNS for IPv6 client networks

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Tue Sep 14 10:57:42 2010

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:57:16 +0300
From: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20100914122758.GK63203@ronin.4ever.de>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On (2010-09-14 14:27 +0200), Elmar K. Bins wrote:

> I as a networking droid have not much quarrel with that, but I am interested
> in how or whether at all others handle this.

About year ago I spent half and hour hacking together base36 and rfc2289
stateless DNS for IPv6. I'm not making any statements on its sensibility or
lack of it. I don't use it myself, as we aren't that far in our IPv6
deployment that we need to think about the problem.

[ytti@lintukoto ~]% dig -x c001:dead::babe @62.236.255.181 +short                   
bd80m2ztp38uc3l76b06mk33y.ip.fi.
[ytti@lintukoto ~]% dig -x c001:dead::babe @62.236.255.182 +short                   
mudd-do-lava-0-off-bit.ip.fi.
[ytti@lintukoto ~]% dig bd80m2ztp38uc3l76b06mk33y.ip.fi. AAAA
@62.236.255.181 +short
c001:dead::babe
[ytti@lintukoto ~]% dig mudd-do-lava-0-off-bit.ip.fi. AAAA @62.236.255.182
+short   
c001:dead::babe

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