On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Shane Kerr wrote: > In IPv6, the ISP has no knowledge of which of the 2^64 or 2^80 addresses given > to each customer is actually used for which purpose. This is why I suggest > that > for reverse DNS to work in IPv6 you need to either delegate to a DNS server > that > is at the customer site or provide some way to update the DNS information at > the > ISP's server. > > If ISPs decide to manage customer addresses directly, for example with DHCPv6, > then this problem does go away. Perhaps the DNSOP group would like to propose > moving IPv6 stateless address configuration to "historical" and recommend > using > DHCPv6? ;)
RFC 4472 discusses all these issues. There's probably some material there that could be pulled here. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings . dnsop resources:_____________________________________________________ web user interface: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~llynch/dnsop.html mhonarc archive: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~llynch/dnsop/index.html
