Re: (ngtrans) The reverse lookup issue

[Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

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>>>>> "David" == David Terrell <dbt@meat.net> writes:
    David> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 09:53:47PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
    >> Precisely *this* has been proposed.
    >> I can't recall if it was Keith Moore or Bill Manning that had code to do
    >> exactly this using plug-ins to bind9.

  Thank you for posting with the details.

    David> Keith wrote a draft that proposed several mechanisms and debated
    David> their reasonability.  I implemented one suggestion (not perfectly)
    David> for bind9's sdb mechanism, that creates pseudoauthority records for
    David> 2002:abcd:efgh:: that point to 2002:abcd:efgh:magic-suffii.  It is
    David> available here: http://meat.net/~dbt/code/rev6to4/

    David> The other method (infer authority records from closest authority
    David> records in IPv4 in-addr tree)  was implemented by Feico Dillema in
    David> his self-described DNSALG totd, available at
    David> http://www.vermicelli.pasta.cs.uit.no/ipv6/software.html.

  I didn't realize that these were seperate suggestions - we do DNSALG, and
if we find nothing, we try the magic-suffii. Although now that I think about
it, the likelyhood of there being any NS records at the leaf of the IPv4 tree
is pretty much zero.

  Is there a plan to go forward with any of this?
  It simply seems like the right solution to me.

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