as the admin for ip6.int. the IPv6 wg declared that ip6.int should be terminated on 6/6/06 - along with the 6bone. David Conrad removed the delegation shortly there after, even though there are still resolvers which look for that delegation instead of the ip6.arpa zone - which functions as its replacement. I had proposed using the "DNAME" construct to allow the 10+ years of resolver code that was/is using ip6.int to continue to function well ... but this idea was rejected by the IANA.
--bill On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 03:22:59PM +0200, Alfred Hvnes wrote: > Folks, > skimming over your most recent "Locally-served DNS Zones I-D", > draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-11, I got stuck in section 5. > > The 4th paragraph of that section in the draft says: > > | This document also ignores IP6.INT. IP6.INT has been wound up with > | only legacy resolvers now generating reverse queries under IP6.INT > | [RFC4159]. > > I had some vague recollection that IP6.INT had gone out of service > quite some time ago, and started over to verify that. > A copy of the INT zone is no more made available online via FTP, > but I have checked all authoritative name servers for INT., and they > indeed all consistently respond with NXDOMAIN to any query for IP6.INT. > > Recollection starts to leak after >4 years, and for an uninitiated > reader, the phrase "has been wound up" seems to be rather ambiguous. > I'd prefer the draft to state the facts more precisely so that the > conclusion drawn can be better understood. > > Proposed strawman replacement for above clause: > > | This document also ignores IP6.INT, which initially hosted the IPv6 > | reverse DNS tree but does not exist any more, after it had been > | demissed by [RFC4159]. IP6.INT has been wound up with only legacy > | resolvers now generating reverse queries under IP6.INT. > > Kind regards, > Alfred. > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > DNSOP@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
