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Re: comcast ipv6 PTR

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Webb)
Wed Oct 9 12:47:10 2013

From: "Robert Webb" <rwebb@ropeguru.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:47:16 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20131009164150.GG1193@cmadams.net>
Reply-To: Robert Webb <rwebb@ropeguru.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 11:41:50 -0500
  Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Blair Trosper <blair.trosper@gmail.com> said:
>> Does anyone know why (or can someone from Comcast explain why) there 
>>is no
>> PTR on their residential/business IPv6 addresses?
> 
> I believe business customers (with a static assignment) can request
> reverse DNS entries.  Residential customers are not guaranteed a 
>static
> assignment, so they can't get reverse set.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
> 

But how would thet differ from the IPv4 address space which has PTR 
records for all their IP's? Just the shear number they would have to 
deal with in the IPv6 space?

Robert


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