(usagi-users 03495) Re: facing problem in dns inverse query for IPv6

Hugo van der Kooij <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ipv6.usagi.users
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Sanjib Das wrote:

> i'm facing problem in dns inverse query for IPv6.

Indeed.

> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> -x fe80::210:b5ff:fea7:f057
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 49846
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;\[xFE800000000000000210B5FFFEA7F057/128].ip6.arpa. IN PTR

This is not a recommended format. I noticed that older IPv6
implementations send these out while it is not in use and should use the
normal (longer) ipv6.arpa format.

See also: http://www.sixxs.net/forum/?msg=apps-293321

Hugo.

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