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has caused the Debian Bug report #194928,
regarding bind9-host: Improper IPv6 lookup methods
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Package: bind9-host
Version: 1:9.2.2-2
Quoting man page for host(1):
> The -n option specifies that reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses should
> use the IP6.INT domain and "nibble" labels as defined in RFC1886. The
> default is to use IP6.ARPA and binary labels as defined in RFC2874.
The default method ought to be using "nibble" labels, BUT in the
IP6.ARPA domain, which seems to be the method to recommend nowadays
for reverse lookup of IPv6 addresses (see RFC3363 and
draft-ietf-dnsext-rfc1886bis-02.txt
<URL:http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsext-rfc1886bis-02.txt>).
The default method of this host(1) is the one defined in RFC2874. It
is hardly used and things seem to stay that way; therefore, it is not
very useful and should not be the default.
The alternative method (selected by the -n option) uses the method in
RFC1886. It uses the old IP6.INT domain instead of IP6.ARPA.
The preferred method (as in RFC1886 but using IP6.ARPA) is not even
available. It should be the default, or there should at least be a
flag for doing this kind of lookup.
Thorild Selén
Datorföreningen Update / Update Computer Club, Uppsala, SE
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Version: 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3
Hi,
the bind9 bug list grew too much and the Debian BIND team cannot
simply test all the reported bugs against versions not in stable, so
this is mass bug close, as either the version is no longer relevant
(because of old-old-stable 9.8.x or old-stable 9.9.5 or even older
version of bind9) or the bug was already fixed.
However, if you can reproduce the bug with a current version in stable,
please use Debian BTS 'found <bug> <version_you_reproduced_the_issue>'
command to retag the bug and reopen it.
Cheers,
Ondrej
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