6to4 Reverse DNS

Byung-Hee HWANG bh at izb.knu.ac.kr
Tue Oct 16 05:52:12 UTC 2007


Mark,

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 09:35 +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 20:05 -0700, D. Stussy wrote:
> > > Byung-Hee HWANG wrote:
> > > > I want to wait for IETF's decision as possible. Actually you gave me
> > > > good information, thanks!
> > > 
> > > And the point of waiting is ... what?
> > > 
> > > Even if it were just a test, it works and is still working(*).  Why
> > > not use it now?  It's not meant as a permanent solution anyway.
> > > 
> > > * - NRO's implementation of the "test" does have problems:  Of its 4
> > > servers, 2 are running, one times out alot, and the fourth seems to be
> > > returning "SERVFAIL" for the past year (or longer).
> > 
> > Unfortunately, IPv6 is considered as unstable area by my domain master.
> > I cannot reason the my domain master down to do 6to4 Reverse DNS
> > Delegation with such unstable draft even though it works well without
> > any problems;;
> 
> 	The draft documents a existing service (that's one reason
> 	why it will get the Experimental tag).  The service is not
> 	going to change.  The document has passed dnsops review on
> 	that basis.
> 
> 	If there was a clean slate implementation then DNAME rather
> 	than NS records would be used as they require far less work
> 	to be done for each address change.  6to4 space is highly
> 	dynamic and setting up new zones after each address change
> 	is a pain. That pain goes away when DNAME is used.
> 
> 	Mark

Thanks for good explaination, and now I go to the 6to4.nro.net;;

Sincerely,

> > Thanks, anyway!
> > 
> > -- 
> > Byung-Hee HWANG <bh at izb.knu.ac.kr>
> > 
> > "He's a responsible man in his own way."
> > 		-- Michael Corleone, "Chapter 25", page 363
-- 
Byung-Hee HWANG <bh at izb.knu.ac.kr>

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