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Re: Reverse DNS RFCs and Recommendations

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Wed Nov 6 16:29:03 2013

To: Cutler James R <james.cutler@consultant.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Nov 2013 09:34:56 -0500."
 <5964ADA4-8FCF-4FCE-9E64-7474CCAE57F2@consultant.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 08:26:26 +1100
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org



In message <5964ADA4-8FCF-4FCE-9E64-7474CCAE57F2@consultant.com>, Cutler James R writes:
> On Nov 6, 2013, at 9:02 AM, Livingood, Jason
> <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com> wrote:
>
> > Reverse DNS for (typical) residential customer IPv6 addresses is dead,
> > people just haven't come to grips with it just yet.;-)
> >
> >
> > When publicly-reachable services in home networks are created that may
> > be a different matter of course. But it is hard to imagine an ISP
> > automatically or dynamically generating reverse records for all the IPv6
> > addresses handed out to your average residential users.
> >
> > Jason

This discussion is currently NOT about ISP's generating PTR records
for IPv6 reverse.

It is about the automatic delegation of the DNS reverse namespace
to to servers under customer control when the CPE device requests
it as part of the Prefix Delegation request.  This is about a adding
KEY, DS and NS records at the delegation point in a secure manner.

Mark
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