--On Wednesday, March 19, 2003 04:09:42 +0100 Brad Knowles
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 9:07 AM +1000 2003/03/19, George Michaelson wrote:
> 
>>  Radical Surgery proposal: stop doing reverse for IPv6.
> 
>       Why?  What's the problem with providing reverse DNS for IPv6?

None, except that it is boring to manually calculate the addresses. 

But, we do have computers for that. 

(yes, I know it speaks of ip6.int, but I've mailed the author about
that...) 

$ sipcalc -r 2001:490:f002:128:260:1dff:fe1d:1fcb
-[ipv6 : 2001:490:f002:128:260:1dff:fe1d:1fcb] - 0

[IPV6 DNS]
Reverse DNS (ip6.int)   -
b.c.f.1.d.1.e.f.f.f.d.1.0.6.2.0.8.2.1.0.2.0.0.f.0.9.4.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.int.

I am all for continuing reverse DNS usage, if for nothing else to make
traceroutes prettier. 

The practice of mandating it is different.

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