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[call for opinions] Stopping support of ip6.int reverse

on Thursday, 12 February 2004 13:52:53

As the e.f.f.3.ip6.arpa tree for the 6bone, which is currently being used by gblon01 and nlams02 (IPng) is being constructed, at least they say, would there be any objection in stopping complete support of ip6.int reverses in 2 months after e.f.f.3.ip6.arpa tree has been found 'working'. The proposal thus is: - e.f.f.3.ip6.arpa works - 2 months after that we stop and close down all ip6.int delegations. Reasoning: - Identifying broken software can only be done when ip6.int doesn't work. Known ip6.int only software/hardware: - Old Cisco's (which you will need to upgrade anyways due to many bugs) - Windows XP SP1 (fixed in SP2) - Redhat Fedora Core 1 - ...

[call for opinions] Stopping support of ip6.int reverse

Shadow Hawkins on Thursday, 06 May 2004 20:50:48

It is great news ip6.arpa is coming, but to bad Windows XP SP2 is coming at the end of june or begin of july (or maby later knowing Microsoft) I think you should wait until then to phaseout ip6.int. although ip6.ini is only on the KewlioPOP, so nobody will notice the differance.

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Jeroen Massar SixXS Staff

on Tuesday, 20 July 2004 11:31:23

e.f.f.3.ip6.arpa finally works as of today. Expect an announcement soon on when the ip6.int tree is going to be taken offline for SixXS delegations.

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Carmen Sandiego on Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:43:00

I'm allready used to ip6.arpa and don't have a problem with it, its maybe good to encourage the use of ip6.arpa, because it will be the new standard soon. A friend who has his range on nlams02 (and is sitting next to me) doesn't have a problem with it, he allready has both e.f.f.3.ip6.int and e.f.f.3.ip6.arpa in his bind settings.

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Shadow Hawkins on Thursday, 12 February 2004 18:49:58

I did the same as your Friend, setting up both INT and ARPA. I like the idea of stopping the whole IP6.INT because it would maken applications work better at the end. but maby stoppig the IP6.INT when SP2 for Windows XP is out? (I thought it should be within 2 or 3 months... at least I hope) are there any IP6.ARPA only software/hardware ?

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Shadow Hawkins on Thursday, 12 February 2004 19:03:43

I have 2001:: production adress space, but I think it is a good idea to shut down .ip6.int Windows users might be interested if there is a patch for XP SP1 as a standalone fix (as long as SP 2 is not available)

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Shadow Hawkins on Friday, 13 February 2004 01:33:09

Hi, I would definitely wait till Windows XP SP2 is out or a "fix" is available. XP SP2 should be available within the next months, hopefully though. Kind regards Lars

[call for opinions] Stopping support of ip6.int reverse

Shadow Hawkins on Friday, 13 February 2004 10:48:03

Although having a Windoze fix around when disabling ip6.int would be nice, IMHO it is not required. IPv6 would continue to work, only reverse lookups would fail. In most cases this would not lead to major problems, right?

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Shadow Hawkins on Friday, 13 February 2004 09:18:10

I've currently set up both, but wouldn't mind it. I've hacked the change from int to arpa into my djbdns port, so that ought to not be a problem. By the way, will we meet at FOSDEM?

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Shadow Hawkins on Friday, 13 February 2004 10:59:19

No Objection; enforce ip6.arpa :)

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Jeroen Massar SixXS Staff

on Tuesday, 17 February 2004 13:23:24

Updates For Redhat (before anyone thinks I am a big evil anti Redhat person }) ) Bugzilla Bug 101261: getnameinfo fails to to reverse lookup on IPv6 addresses Bugzilla Bug 111059: nibble format ip6.arpa ipv6 reverse lookups with bind 9.2.3rc1+ Or in short: being fixed :)

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Shadow Hawkins on Friday, 20 February 2004 07:06:05

Oh, how sad is that! Fixing glibc to support bitstring lables just to find out that they are deprecated ... ;-P

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Shadow Hawkins on Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:49:37

Agreed. Make it just Go Away (tm) :)

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Jeroen Massar SixXS Staff

on Saturday, 20 March 2004 15:31:14

I just did a test of Windows XP SP2 RC1 and it supports ip6.arpa queries, thus..... guess what my prime reason is for using a RC1 ;)

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Shadow Hawkins on Saturday, 20 March 2004 17:01:11

I hope the Final will be around soon

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Pim van Pelt SixXS Staff

on Tuesday, 23 March 2004 09:54:58

I can support nuking ip6.int from within AS8954. Using DNAME tree replication right now seems to work just fine for AS12859 (my employer), but I do not see any obstacle for deleting the int tree (as long as it is cleaned up in the eff3 zone too!). I had some customer at AS12859 who wished to have int/arpa both in place. As the customer is always right[tm], AS12859 will not be dismantling ip6.int any time soon.

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Jeroen Massar SixXS Staff

on Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:32:45

Stolen from Benedikt Stockebrand on the JOIN-IPv6 list: Dig 8.3: Nibbles, ip6.arpa. FreeBSD 5.2, 5.2.1, Core Distribution NetBSD 1.6.2, Core Distribution Solaris 9/x86, Core Distribution Dig 9.2.1: Bitstring. Debian Woody, Standard-Package RedHat 9, Standard-Package Dig 9.2.2: Bitstring. FreeBSD 5.2, Ports Collection OpenBSD 3.4, Core Distribution Solaris 9/x86, Sunfreeware-Package Dig 9.2.3: Nibbles, ip6.arpa. FreeBSD 5.2.1, Ports Collection NetBSD 1.6.2, Ports Collection "dig -n -x" on various platforms: Dig 8.3 (FreeBSD 5.2.1): Keine UnterstÃ¼tzung fÃ¼r -n. Dig 9.2.1 (Debian Woody): Nibbles, ip6.int. Dig 9.2.2 (OpenBSD 3.4): Nibbles, ip6.int. Dig 9.2.3 (FreeBSD 5.2.1): Nibbles, ip6.arpa. 9.2.3 and up also support explicit ip6.int requests using the -i option.

[call for opinions] Stopping support of ip6.int reverse

Shadow Hawkins on Monday, 10 May 2004 19:20:28

Dig 9.2.4rc2 (Debian testing/sarge): Nibbles, ip6.arpa

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