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> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Brad Knowles wrote:
> [ post by non-subscriber. with the massive amount of spam, it is easy to
> miss and therefore delete mis-posts. so fix subscription addresses! ]
>
> > At 6:35 AM +0900 2002/07/15, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> >
> > > the co-existence of ip6.int and ip6.arpa tree will require us to:
> > > query ip6.arpa;
> > > if (no record)
> > > query ip6.int;
> > > for backward compatibility. was it taken into account, or did you
> > > test just "ip6.arpa" lookups?
> >
> > I checked the source code for BIND 9.2.1, and IIRC it checks
> > ip6.int first and then ip6.arpa second. This allows us to stand up
> > ip6.arpa whenever, and then once that is set, we can tear down
> > ip6.int.
>
> FWIW, e.g. Linux glibc resolver only checks ip6.arpa now, so you'd better
> start standing up..
>
Yet another instance of Linux jumping the gun... :)
--bill
