Question about dynamic IPv6-PTR-Generation

Matthew Pounsett matt at conundrum.com
Fri Aug 26 19:46:56 UTC 2016


On 26 August 2016 at 15:41, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk>
wrote:

>
>>> 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.
>

$GENERATE is useless in that situation, yes.  But something that provides
rules to a name server to synthesize responses (vs actually generating all
18446744073709551616 PTRs in a /64) is not.
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