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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Sunday, February 8, 2004 6:00:55 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:40:09 am | by DanielLawson | Revert |
@@ -1,25 +1,20 @@
-[A6] is a way of specifying [IPv6] addresses in [DNS].
-
-[A6]
is specified in RFC:2874
-
-[A6]
is considered by some as being the standard way of specifying
[IPv6] addresses in
[DNS],
however many consider it far too complex and use [AAAA] instead. See [AAAAvsA6] for discussion.
+[A6] is a way of specifying [IPv6] addresses in [DNS]. It
is specified in RFC:2874 and
is considered by some as being the "
standard"
way of adding
[IPv6] entries into the
[DNS], however many consider it far too complex and use [AAAA] instead. See [AAAAvsA6] for discussion.
Example:
$ORIGIN X.EXAMPLE.
- N A6 64 ::1234:5678:9ABC:DEF0 SN-1.IP6
+ N
A6 64 ::1234:5678:9ABC:DEF0 SN-1.IP6
SN-1.IP6 A6 48 0:0:0:1:: IP6
- IP6 A6 48 ::0 CUST-X.IP6.A.NET.
+ IP6
A6 48 ::0 CUST-X.IP6.A.NET.
- IP6 A6 48 ::0 CUST-X.IP6.B.NET.
+ IP6
A6 48 ::0 CUST-X.IP6.B.NET.
Compare [AAAA].
-
----
I tried setting this up at home - debian woody, bind9. I could do host -t A6 $domain fine, and host -t A6 $host.$domain worked too, although it returned the fragment for the host and the domain name as part of the record - not what its supposed to do. Glibc under debian woody doesn't appear to support it, and its listed as a bug as of June 15 2003, tagged 'wishlist'. Pity too, as A6 addressing makes a LOT of sense for dynamic IP.
@@ -29,10 +24,12 @@
$ORIGIN test.element.tla.
helium 10 IN A6 0 ::1 test.element.tla.
-which is how I interpreted the bind9 docs on setting up A6 addressing. If i'm doing this wrong let me know.
+which is how I interpreted the bind9 docs on setting up A6 addressing. If i'm doing this wrong let me know. -- DanielLawson
+
+''Some name servers (bind9?) support [A6] -> [AAAA] translations, can this be enabled?''
-DanielLawson
-----
-Some name servers (bind9?) support [A6] -> [AAAA] translations, can this be enabled?
''I can find no mention of this. Bind9 supports A6 addresses in full, which are essentially identical to AAAA addresses, but thats not what I want''
+
+-----
+CategoryNetworking
