A6/DNAME - game over

[Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>]

just fyi.  itojun and marka have done the deed.  as of 8.3.2 and 9.2.1,
the bitstring approach to gethostbyaddr() for IPv6 will be dead.  i'm
personally still quite convinced that this will make IPv6 less approachable
for networks who want to multihome.  but professionally speaking, the
ietf consensus on this matter is obvious.  ISC's mission is in two parts:
(1) try to make the standards sensible; (2) implement whatever standards
result.  i consider that we have failed at (1), and at considerable cost
in BIND9's original time/money budgets as well as its performance.  but
we are nevertheless continuing with (2).

re:

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Subject: CVS commit: bind8
Message-Id: <20020531060534.7937C2186@rc.isc.org>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 23:05:34 -0700 (PDT)

Module Name:	bind8
Committed By:	marka
Date:		Fri May 31 06:05:34 UTC 2002

Modified Files:
	bind8/src: CHANGES
	bind8/src/include: resolv.h
	bind8/src/lib/irs: dns_ho.c
	bind8/src/lib/resolv: res_init.c res_private.h

Log Message:
1286.   [func]          libbind: no longer attempts bit string labels for
                        IPv6 reverse resolution.  Try IPV6.ARPA then IPV6.INT
                        for nibble style resolution.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -r8.1022 -r8.1023 bind8/src/CHANGES
cvs rdiff -r8.47 -r8.48 bind8/src/include/resolv.h
cvs rdiff -r1.35 -r1.36 bind8/src/lib/irs/dns_ho.c
cvs rdiff -r8.28 -r8.29 bind8/src/lib/resolv/res_init.c
cvs rdiff -r8.2 -r8.3 bind8/src/lib/resolv/res_private.h

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.



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