(usagi-users 03532) Re: dns reverse lookup issues

--On Saturday, October 08, 2005 04:51:21 PM +0200 Jeroen Massar
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 18:38 +0530, Sanjib Das wrote:
>> 
>> Hi 
>> 
>> As per RFC 3364 :    Any name server which does not support bit label
>> will return error 
>> 
>> As per RFC 3363:    This document moves the A6 and Bit label
>> specifications to experimental status. 
> <SNIP>
> 
> It's very simple: Only use "x.x.x.x.x.x.x<long>.x.x.ip6.arpa".
> Every version of BIND allows on to create PTR's for that, see various
> examples floating around the int4rweb aka Google for it.
> 
> For reversing it, some 'dig' version support it, most don't and
> generally it is a mess. Solution, use the following script:
> http://www.sixxs.net/archive/tools/ip6_arpa.pl

ipv6calc can also help you:
<http://www.deepspace6.net/projects/ipv6calc.html>

        Peter
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