[67465] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino)
Tue Feb 10 08:20:23 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:09:48 +0900 (JST)"
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:19:51 +0900 (JST)
From: itojun@itojun.org (Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > > if i try to log into my machines back in tokyo by IPv6 SSH, it takes
> > > very long time. i guess i found the reason - (possible) lame delegation
> > > of blah.ip6.int. ip6.arpa. query returns instantly.
> > > how could we fix it?
> > By fixing the software as ip6.int was deprecated 2 years+++
> > ago as you should already know.
>
> for backward compatibility reasons many software do
> query ip6.arpa;
> if (not found)
> query ip6.int;
> i'm not too sure if we can remove the "query ip6.int" part today.
i mean, e.f.f.3.ip6.int. is not even delegated.
itojun
