Problems creating reverse ip6.arp zone with bitstrings

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Wed Jan 18 14:16:01 UTC 2006


Mark Andrews wrote:
> 	IP6.ARPA uses nibbles.  Bitstring labels are essentially
> 	dead.  Support for them has been removed from BIND 9.3.
> 
> 	This is my IP6.INT zone.  All the PTR records are in the
> 	IP6.ARPA zone.  I only provide it for legacy support.
> 	Someday (soon hopefully) "IP6.INT. DNAME IP6.ARPA." will
> 	be all that is required.  Note this requires all the servers
> 	for the zone with the DNAME to support DNAME as the servers
> 	have to generate the CNAMEs on the fly.
> 	
> 	Mark
> 
> $ORIGIN .
> $TTL 3600       ; 1 hour
> 0.2.8.0.0.0.f.1.0.7.4.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.int IN SOA bsdi.dv.isc.org. marka.isc.org. (

Shouldn't this include the trailing period for consistency? I know this
is specified at the root so that the trailing period is implied, but I
think it would read better if it were included.

Danny

>                                 2003102600 ; serial
>                                 3600       ; refresh (1 hour)
>                                 1200       ; retry (20 minutes)
>                                 2419200    ; expire (4 weeks)
>                                 3600       ; minimum (1 hour)
>                                 )
>                         NS      ns-ext.vix.com.
>                         NS      ns-int.vix.com.
>                         DNAME   0.2.8.0.0.0.f.1.0.7.4.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa.
> 



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