IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

Thu Feb 12 03:47:32 UTC 2004

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> 
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Paul Vixie wrote:
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> : as a practical matter, it is impossible to ensure that all name servers
> : and resolvers understand DNAME.  but it is very possible to ensure that
> : a given zone, such as "8.f.4.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa" in ISC's case, is only
> : served by authority servers who understand DNAME and do CNAME synthesis.
> 
> Would it be too much to try to get the RIRs to agree that "ip6.int." get a
> DNAME and all other zones get unlinked in a shorter timeframe?  i.e. why go
> through the motions of many different subzones of ip6.int. having DNAMEs
> when just one record will do for the world?
> 
> In any other Internet context, I can see this as being too many cooks in the
> kitchen, but the entities serving up ip6.int. zones are of a reasonably
> small number.
> 
> -- Todd Vierling <tv at duh.org> <tv at pobox.com>

	-IF- (its a big one) we can get the IANA to agree, then the 
	DNAME haq would be implemented post haste.

--bill