Re: [homenet] ip6.arpa reverse delegation

2014-11-24 Thread Markus Stenberg
On 23.11.2014, at 23.14, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: I have read: Automated Delegation of IP6.ARPA reverse zones with Prefix Delegation draft-andrews-dnsop-pd-reverse-02 as a method to delegate reverse zones to CPE devices as the prefix is delegated. I find the method

Re: [homenet] ip6.arpa reverse delegation

2014-11-24 Thread Michael Richardson
Markus Stenberg markus.stenb...@iki.fi wrote: On 23.11.2014, at 23.14, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: I have read: Automated Delegation of IP6.ARPA reverse zones with Prefix Delegation draft-andrews-dnsop-pd-reverse-02 as a method to delegate

Re: [homenet] ip6.arpa reverse delegation

2014-11-24 Thread Tero Kivinen
Markus Stenberg writes: Is this actually desired by the operators? At least here (.fi), ISPs seem to consider the reverse pointing to x.customer.y.isp.fi a feature, not a bug, of the current IPv4 deployment and specified same for future IPv6 deployments as well. (At the moment my ISP does not

Re: [homenet] ip6.arpa reverse delegation

2014-11-24 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
a method to delegate reverse [DNS] zones to CPE devices Is this actually desired by the operators? I'm a little ashamed to admit that I don't understand the purpose of reverse DNS. To my naive eyes, if you already know the IP of a host, then you should be able to ask the host directly for its

Re: [homenet] ip6.arpa reverse delegation

2014-11-24 Thread Ted Lemon
On Nov 24, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek j...@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr wrote: I'm a little ashamed to admit that I don't understand the purpose of reverse DNS. Reverse DNS is useful for logging, so that you can associate a name with a host. You don't necessarily want to (and may