AW: ipv6 PTR in zone file

[Walter.Jontofsohn at t-systems.com]

Hello,

you could use ipv6calc (ftp://ftp.bieringer.de/pub/linux/ipv6/ipv6calc) to calculate the reverse strings.
Then you can put them into the zone file.

With Best regards,

Walter


Im Auftrag von Michel de Nostredame
>Gesendet: Montag, 11. April 2011 20:44
>An: bind-users
>Betreff: ipv6 PTR in zone file
>
>Hi BIND Users,
>
>I am not sure if my post here is proper or not. If not please 
>kindly guide me to a correct list.
>
>I have lot of "static" IPv6 address needs to add into DNS PTR record.
>Most of them are server IP addresses and addresses on router 
>interfaces.
>Compose proper PTR records, without human errors, is highly 
>difficult (compares to IPv4 PTR records), as we encode some 
>customer information into the address.
>
>I tried to look into bit-string and soon realized it is 
>already removed from recent BIND versions. Then tried to 
>search "$REVERSE" and "$INVERSE" on Google but got no much 
>luck; seems not much development / discussion recently.
>
>For example, today we probably do PTR list this,
>
>$ORIGIN 0.0.0.0.0.0.d.4.1.a.1.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa.
>1.0.1.a.0.0.0.5.6.0.c.1.0.0.5.6         PTR
>xe-3-0-3-101.ar.par1.fr.netname.net.
>
>
>What I am think about is if there is any potential possibility 
>to compose IPv6 PTR records in ZONE files in a little easier method?
>something like
>
>$ORIGIN $REVERSE(2001:01a1:4d00:0000).ip6.arpa.
>$REVERSE(6500:1c06:5000:a101)          PTR
>xe-3-0-3-101.ar.par1.fr.netname.net.
>