[131608] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 rDNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Fri Oct 29 23:18:27 2010
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:18:18 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2vd4kxtjw.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010, Randy Bush wrote:
> > http://www.fpsn.net/?pg=tools&tool=ipv6-inaddr
>
> windows mentality, wrap it all in a complex gui that also washes your
> car.
>
> use simple hack that just takes an ipv6 address and makes the bleeping
> reversed dotted to death lhs of the ptr record.
>
> rmac.psg.com:/Users/randy> host 2001:418:1::61
> Host 1.6.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.0.8.1.4.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
But Randy, everyone has a web browser installed. Not everyone has perl, python,
cc, or such installed.
:-)
Adrian
(I wonder if FreeBSD-1.0's complete, non-X install footprint (sub-40meg) was smaller
than an install of Firefox. :-)
