Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:20:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Generally yes. Operators still need to manipulate the lables and
| addresses during troubleshooting. basic tools like dig are indispensible.
Yes, they are... But Bill, dig didn't exist in the early days of
IPv4 DNS either, and you actually had to type backwards IPv4
addresses with .IN-ADDR.ARPA in them to nslookup (and hope that
idiot tool was deciding to work that day).
Tools like these come from the needs of the community who are actually
using the things - when there is enough use of IPv6 reverse lookups
that someone gets frustrated enough, the tools will appear, just as
they did for IPv4. What's more, that's the way it should be, I don't
want someone building diagnostic tools before the actual needs have
been discovered, or we'll end up with another piece of trash like
nslookup...
kre
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