Question about dynamic IPv6-PTR-Generation

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Fri Aug 26 19:41:22 UTC 2016


>> On 26.08.16 07:34, Tom Tom wrote:
>>> I'm searching a way to respond to IPv6-PTR-Queries like the
>>> "$GENERATE"-mechanism for IPv4 has done it.

>On 26 August 2016 at 13:45, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk>
>wrote:
>> why? configuring single IP addresses or taking them from DHCP is easier
>> than creating new useless mechanism.

On 26.08.16 14:01, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
>That's not necessarily true for IPv6, where even a modest network could
>have trillions of addresses that may need PTR records.

that's exactly why using $GENERATE and/or creating new mechanism for that is
useless.
We better need something to identify network itself (even /64 is too much of
IPS) and not necessarily each IPs within that network.

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