help me with the ipv6 PTR generation

Greg Choules gregchoules+bindusers at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 24 07:12:31 UTC 2023


You may already have BIND installed; most distros do. If not, it's easy.
You don't *have* to run named, but tools like this (and dig, particularly)
are very useful to have.

Do "which arpaname" to see if you have it already.

Cheers, Greg

On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 at 08:00, Marco <mo01 at posteo.de> wrote:

> Am 24.08.2023 schrieb Jan-Piet Mens <list at mens.de>:
>
> > easier said than done, for some of us. I use BIND's arpaname(1)
> > utility which does the work for me:
> >
> > $ arpaname 2001:db8::1
> > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.8.B.D.0.1.0.0.2.IP6.ARPA
>
> Thanks for telling me. I used dig and extracted the question section.
>
> Sadly, arpaname is in bind9 package, so if I wanna use it, I have to
> install bind.
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