Ready to get feet wet with IPv6 - pointers/How-Tos?

[D. Stussy]

"Mark Andrews" <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote in message
news:g856nj$26lh$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> > I administer an all-IPv4 network, but I'm ready to get up to speed on
> > supporting IPv6 services.
> >
> > My DNS (BIND v9.3.4, on a RHEL 5.2 system) is authoritative for my
> > network and caches resolutions from the Internet at large.  The client
> > machines on my network are a mix of Linux, Win2K and WinXP machines,
> > and networked printers.  All the usual clients are configured with
> > static 192.168.0/24 IP addresses, but I also do DynDNS for the
> > occasional guest machine.
> >
> > My minimum goal is to support caching resolution of IPv6 addresses.
> >
> > Is there a IPv4-to-IPv6 How-To with an emphasis on DNS that is
> > recommended?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> You listen for queries on IPv6 interfaces
>
> listen-on-v6 { any; };
>
> You add AAAA records for the machines.
>
> drugs.dv.isc.org.  AAAA    2001:470:1f00:820:214:22ff:fed9:fbdc
>
> You add IP6.ARPA PTR records for the addresses with all the nibbles in
> the address expanded and reversed.  This is similar to IN-ADDR.ARPA
entries.
>
> c.d.b.f.9.d.e.f.f.f.2.2.4.1.2.0.0.2.8.0.0.0.f.1.0.7.4.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa.
PTR drugs.dv.isc.org.
>
> A simple way to get the reverse name is to do "dig -x <address>" and look
> at the question section.
>
> e.g
> % dig -x 2001:470:1f00:820:214:22ff:fed9:fbdc

A simpler way is to use this tool for building the reverse zone:
http://www.fpsn.net/tools&tool=ipv6-inaddr