[SHAME] Spam Rats

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Thu Jan 10 04:50:37 UTC 2013


In message <50EE471C.7010409 at utc.edu>, Jeff Kell writes:
> On 1/9/2013 11:41 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > $GENERATE, as someone else pointed out, solves that problem for you?
> > (Does it scale for IPv6? I can't recall - but surely this could be
> > scripted too.)
> > No. A /64 has 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses.  Even if you
> > had machines that supported zettabytes of data the zone would never
> > load in human lifetimes.
> 
> Can you wildcard it? 

No point.  address -> name -> address doesn't work with wildcards.
 
> (Still an IPv6 implementation virgin, just curious :) )
> 
> Jeff

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