On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Alain Durand wrote: > Today, with IPv4+NAT on my home network, I simply point my > stub-resolvers to my ISP DNS resolver. It's simple, and works > fine, at least until I try to do reverse DNS lookup for my internal > addresses.
You could run your own authorative DNS server in your router/firewall/whatever. That's what I do. That isn't really a recipe for the masses, but if that's all it takes, I guess router vendors might implement something like that. > Then it just fails. Some applications that I run on > my local LAN don't work well or wait forever for timeouts, > because they can not resolve 1.1.168 .192.in-addr.arpa. > If I had enough IPv4 address space, I could get my ISP > to populate the DNS reverse maps, and my problem would > be solved. Wildcard records (shudder) ? -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
