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Re: comcast ipv6 PTR


From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 10 Oct 2013 02:01:27 -0000

If people really want to use generic reverse names and have realised
that the v6 address space is much too big for $GENERATE, one approach is
to delegate the appropriate zones to a custom nameserver that can
auto-generate PTRs on demand. There are scaling problems here, but
probably nothing that can't be fixed with high TTLs and multiple
nameservers.

In my discussions with people at some big ISPs, I got the impression
that they could do that, but it wouldn't provide any more useful
information than no rDNS at all, so they don't.  I'm on T-W cable,
and there's no way for me to set rDNS.  It'd be more trouble than
it's worth, since my /64 changes every time the modem reboots
which seems to be about once a month.

Real servers on static addresses are different, of course.  My servers
are on an HE tunnel, and all have matching forward and reverse DNS.

R's,
John


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