Re: [DNSOP] [homenet] ip6.arpa reverse delegation

2014-11-24 Thread Nicholas Weaver
> On Nov 24, 2014, at 9:04 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: > > On Nov 24, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek > wrote: >> I'm a little ashamed to admit that I don't understand the purpose of >> reverse DNS. > > Reverse DNS is useful for logging, so that you can associate a name with a > host. You d

Re: [DNSOP] [homenet] ip6.arpa reverse delegation

2014-11-24 Thread Ted Lemon
On Nov 24, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > I'm a little ashamed to admit that I don't understand the purpose of > reverse DNS. Reverse DNS is useful for logging, so that you can associate a name with a host. You don't necessarily want to (and may not be able to) send a request

Re: [DNSOP] [homenet] ip6.arpa reverse delegation

2014-11-24 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> a method to delegate reverse [DNS] zones to CPE devices > Is this actually desired by the operators? I'm a little ashamed to admit that I don't understand the purpose of reverse DNS. To my naive eyes, if you already know the IP of a host, then you should be able to ask the host directly for i

Re: [DNSOP] [homenet] ip6.arpa reverse delegation

2014-11-24 Thread Tero Kivinen
Markus Stenberg writes: > Is this actually desired by the operators? At least here (.fi), ISPs > seem to consider the reverse pointing to x.customer.y.isp.fi a > feature, not a bug, of the current IPv4 deployment and specified > same for future IPv6 deployments as well. (At the moment my ISP does >

Re: [DNSOP] [homenet] ip6.arpa reverse delegation

2014-11-24 Thread Ted Lemon
On Nov 24, 2014, at 4:47 AM, Markus Stenberg wrote: > Is this actually desired by the operators? At least here (.fi), ISPs seem to > consider the reverse pointing to x.customer.y.isp.fi a feature, not a bug, of > the current IPv4 deployment and specified same for future IPv6 deployments as > we

Re: [DNSOP] [homenet] ip6.arpa reverse delegation

2014-11-24 Thread Michael Richardson
Markus Stenberg wrote: > On 23.11.2014, at 23.14, Michael Richardson > wrote: >> I have read: Automated Delegation of IP6.ARPA reverse zones with >> Prefix Delegation draft-andrews-dnsop-pd-reverse-02 >> >> as a method to delegate reverse zones to CPE devices as the pref

Re: [DNSOP] [homenet] ip6.arpa reverse delegation

2014-11-24 Thread Markus Stenberg
On 23.11.2014, at 23.14, Michael Richardson wrote: > I have read: > Automated Delegation of IP6.ARPA reverse zones with Prefix Delegation > draft-andrews-dnsop-pd-reverse-02 > > as a method to delegate reverse zones to CPE devices as the prefix > is delegated. I find the method entirely sensib