Reverse IPv6 lookups with dynamic updates
Steven Latre
steven.latre at ugent.be
Mon Dec 19 12:43:56 UTC 2005
Stefan Puiu schreef:
>
> You can only use nsupdate to add records to an already existing zone.
> So you would need to create the zones first.
>
And is there a way to create these zones dynamically? Sorry if I'm
asking stupid questions, I'm very new in all this
steven
> On 12/16/05, *Steven LatrŽe* < steven.latre at ugent.be
> <mailto:steven.latre at ugent.be>> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm experiencing some extreme performance loss with a Corba
> application
> since I installed bind. The reason I installed bind was to speed
> up the
> application (there was some trouble with the dns server of my test
> network giving the wrong IP to the Corba naming server).
> Now since the IPv6 addresses of my machines change often I'm using
> dynamic update (TSIG and the nsupdate tool) to register the DNS
> records
> in bind. For now, I'm only adding AAAA records. I'm guessing that the
> reason my Corba application slows down is because he can't perform a
> reverse lookup (I'm not sure that the Corba Naming Service does a
> reverse lookup but it's my best shot).
>
> Now, I want to make sure that reverse lookups are also possible.
> Before
> installing bind I knew practically nothing about all this. I've done
> some searching on the web but can't really find an answer. So what I
> want to do is adding a simple PTR record (right?) to the DNS
> server with
> the nsupdate tool.
> The only extra difficulty (I think) is that my IPv6 addresses can be
> realy everything, I don't have a predefined network id or
> something like
> that. However, in all the sites I found in google the tutorials
> mention
> that I need to define this somehow.
>
> Can someone help me with this?
>
> Steven
>
>
>
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