How do you do rDNS for IPv6 ?

Mon Dec 6 17:41:19 UTC 2010

On Dec 5, 2010, at 9:41 PM, Jima wrote:

> On 12/5/2010 4:13 PM, John Levine wrote:
>> In IPv4 land, it is standard to assign matching forward and reverse
>> DNS for every live IP, and a fair number of services treat requests
>> from hosts without rDNS with added scepticism. For consumer networks,
>> it's often something like 12-34-56-78.adsl.incompetent.net, with the
>> numbers being the IP address forward or backwards.
>> 
>> So if every customer gets a /64, what do you do?  You can use a
>> wildcard to give the same rDNS to all 2^64 addresses, but you can't do
>> matching forward DNS, since a DNS response with 2^64 AAAA records
>> would be, ah, a little unwieldy.
> 
> I thought the same thing, actually, which is why I made my own solution.  I ended up writing a DNS server in perl (using Net::DNS::Nameserver) that replies to reverse queries with a reproducible PTR -- generated by encoding the IP in base32.  (Or the second half of the IP, in the case of a few "known" networks.)  Forward queries for the matching name decode the base32.
> The host-specific part of the DNS is kind of long (26 characters, or 13 for known networks), but it's marginally shorter than the full IP (which would be 32/16 characters, without separators).  I'm pretty happy with the results, but I'd love to hear if anyone's come up with more elegant solutions.

Anyone done this dynamic synthesis w/ bind?  dnssec thoughts as well?  i know this isn't namedroppers, but perhaps someone can post some code or examples, or a link to a webpage with them? 

- Jared