reverse dns for IPV6 ranges

Peter Andreev andreev.peter at gmail.com
Mon Mar 19 18:58:32 UTC 2012


2012/3/19 hugo hugoo <hugobxl at hotmail.com>

>  Jay,
>
> - Can you give me an example of such configuration?
>
>
>
> As anyone else some examples of IPV6 reverse configuration used in
> production environment?
>
> Thanks for sharing your experience...
>
> Hugo,
>

We use IPv6 in production environment. It was a real headache to fill
reverse ip6.arpa zones by hand until I have learned about "arpaname"
utility. Since that maintaining reverse IPv6 zones is just a piece of cake.


>  > Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:28:53 -0500
> > From: jay-ford at uiowa.edu
>
> > To: hugobxl at hotmail.com
> > CC: bind-users at lists.isc.org
> > Subject: RE: reverse dns for IPV6 ranges
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, hugo hugoo wrote:
> > > Has anyone else experience with reverse IPV6 configuration with Bind?
> >
> > We do static PTR records in the ip6.arpa zones like we do in the
> in-addr.arpa
> > zones, to create address->name mappings matching the name->address
> mappings
> > created by the AAAA & A records.
> >
> > I fairly recently started fiddling with wildcard PTR records for DHCPv6
> > address pools, to at least return some answer for a query about the
> > addresses. Right now I have it configured so that a query for any
> address in
> > any of the pools returns the same name, but it could be changed to
> return
> > different names for different pools. This obviously doesn't create
> symmetric
> > name->address & address->name mapping, which might or might not be a
> problem.
> > I don't have enough real use of this to know whether this wildcard stuff
> is
> > helpful or not.
> >
> > ________________________________________________________________________
> > Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services
> > University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
> > email: jay-ford at uiowa.edu, phone: 319-335-5555, fax: 319-335-2951
>
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