IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino itojun at itojun.org
Tue Feb 10 13:19:51 UTC 2004


> > > 	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



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