aredridel wrote: > -Totd is a small DNS proxy nameserver that supports IPv6 only > -hosts/networks that communicate with the IPv4 world using some > -translation mechanism. Examples of such translation mechanisms > -currently in use are: > -- IPv6/IPv4 Network Address and Packet Translation (NAT-PT) > - implemented e.g. by Cisco. > -- Application level translators as the faithd implemented by the KAME > - project (http://www.kame.net/) or pTRTd > - (http://v6web.litech.org/ptrtd/) [...] > +Totd is a small DNS proxy nameserver that supports IPv6 only hosts/networks > that communicate with the IPv4 world using some translation mechanism. > Examples of such translation mechanisms currently in use are: > + > +- IPv6/IPv4 Network Address and Packet Translation (NAT-PT) implemented e.g. > by Cisco. > +- Application level translators as the faithd implemented by the KAME > project. See faithd(8) on BSD/Kame. > + > +These translators translate map IPv4 to IPv6 connections and back in some > way. In order for an application to connect through such a translator to the > world beyond it needs to use fake or fabricated addresses that are routed to > this translator. These fake addresses don't exist in the DNS, and most likely > you would not want them to appear there either. Totd fixes this problem for > now (until more elegant solutions emerge?) by translating DNS > queries/responses for the faked addresses. totd constructs these fake > addresses based on a configured IPv6 translator prefix and records it *does* > find in DNS. Totd is merely a stateless DNS-proxy, not a nameserver itself. > Totd needs to be able to forward requests to a real nameserver. In addition, > totd has experimental support for reverse lookup of 6to4 addresses and for > translation scoped address queries. See also, the README file and man page > that ships with totd.
Please format to 70 columns as stated in devel-hints: : Any content in the %description section should be formatted to 70 chars. > @@ -89,19 +50,7 @@ > All persons listed below can be reached at <cvs_login>@pld-linux.org > > $Log$ > -Revision 1.4 2004/10/31 15:11:53 paladine > -- spaces->tabs > -- formatting > - > -Revision 1.3 2004/08/20 20:02:18 qboosh > -- pl, cleanups/fixes > - > -Revision 1.2 2004/08/12 18:04:45 aredridel > -- adapterised > -- fixed group > - > -Revision 1.1 2004/08/12 18:03:19 aredridel Why did you remove these changelog entries ? -- ======================================================================= Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (48)(58) 347 14 61 Faculty of Applied Phys. & Math., Gdansk University of Technology _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
