> -----Original Message----- > From: Pekka Savola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [...] > 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.
Personally I think DNS reverse lookups should go away, not site-locals. In my opinion, using ICMP name lookups to the node itself is a much better solution to making reverse lookups work, and they would work fine for scoped addresses. (Yes it would only work when the node is reachable, but I don't consider that a problem, whereas DNS has bigger problems.) -Dave -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
