Woodworth, John R <john.woodwo...@centurylink.com> wrote: > > For IPv4 I can't see what advantage BULK has over $GENERATE > > or similar back-end provisioning scripts. > > Really?
If you're proposing a forklift upgrade of the DNS then I think you need to make the advantages clear, rather than expecting me to guess. > In the IPv6 world, the smallest significant network is 18 > and some odd quintillion (18,000,000,000,000,000,000) > addresses. > > Think of this as your property (e.g. your yard). Each IP address > in itself is small but without the sum of each, what do you have? > > Suddenly, each blade of grass has value. > > This is how a customer feels when they are given (sold) address space. I hate mowing the grass. Can you provide a technical reason for per-address IPv6 reverse DNS? Where I work, we bulk populate reverse v4 DHCP pools just so we know that they are pools. We aren't going to bother doing that with v6 because everything is a pool, except for a relatively small number of statically configured switches and servers and suchlike. The other use for reverse DNS is to get a quick idea of which institution has been allocated an address, at a finer granularity than whois can, and without having to dig through our more detailed databases. A wildcard PTR can do this job for v6 just fine. You can even put an APL record at the PTR target to get the forward and reverse to match. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode South Fitzroy: Northwesterly 4 or 5. Moderate or rough. Showers. Good. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
