[159377] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [SHAME] Spam Rats
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Wed Jan 9 23:50:55 2013
To: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:44:12 CDT."
<50EE471C.7010409@utc.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:50:37 +1100
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <50EE471C.7010409@utc.edu>, Jeff Kell writes:
> On 1/9/2013 11:41 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > $GENERATE, as someone else pointed out, solves that problem for you?
> > (Does it scale for IPv6? I can't recall - but surely this could be
> > scripted too.)
> > No. A /64 has 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses. Even if you
> > had machines that supported zettabytes of data the zone would never
> > load in human lifetimes.
>
> Can you wildcard it?
No point. address -> name -> address doesn't work with wildcards.
> (Still an IPv6 implementation virgin, just curious :) )
>
> Jeff
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