"It's dead, Jim." -- Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy On Apr 6, 2010, at 6:28 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> 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 > _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
