RE: Reverse DNS for IPv6 client networks

2010-09-16 Thread Lee Howard
AM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Reverse DNS for IPv6 client networks > > Hi guys, > > I am looking for operational experience here. > > We have just turned up IPv6 in our "guest wireless", by way of using RA > for address distribution and DHCPv6 for the DNS

Re: Reverse DNS for IPv6 client networks

2010-09-15 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Re Harry, Owen and all the others, first, thank you for your feedback. Seems there is no real consensus, but people are leaning more towards "if it's dynamic, forget rDNS". The PowerDNS solution looks nice to me (alas, another chunk of software the system droids would have to maintain). I am also

Re: Reverse DNS for IPv6 client networks

2010-09-14 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 02:27:59PM +0200, Elmar K. Bins wrote: > Are you creating DNS entries somehow (reverse and, ultimately, forward), > are you using BIND "generate" statements, are you using wildcards...or > are you just ignoring this for the "dynamic boxes"? I haven't had my coffee yet this

Re: Reverse DNS for IPv6 client networks

2010-09-14 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2010-09-14 14:27 +0200), Elmar K. Bins wrote: > I as a networking droid have not much quarrel with that, but I am interested > in how or whether at all others handle this. About year ago I spent half and hour hacking together base36 and rfc2289 stateless DNS for IPv6. I'm not making any state

Re: Reverse DNS for IPv6 client networks

2010-09-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 14, 2010, at 5:27 AM, Elmar K. Bins wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am looking for operational experience here. > > We have just turned up IPv6 in our "guest wireless", by way of using RA > for address distribution and DHCPv6 for the DNS server address (stupid, yup). > > Apart from the dhcp6 pa

Re: Reverse DNS for IPv6 client networks

2010-09-14 Thread Stefan Schmidt
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 02:38:35PM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Instead of handpicking names or letting people insert data into your DNS > servers, some people are deploying PowerDNS with custom backends for > this that either convert the IPv6 address into a 128bit hex number, > optionally strippi

Re: Reverse DNS for IPv6 client networks

2010-09-14 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 9/14/10 5:38 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Instead of handpicking names or letting people insert data into your DNS > servers, some people are deploying PowerDNS with custom backends for > this that either convert the IPv6 address into a 128bit hex number, > optionally stripping the first 64 bits a

Re: Reverse DNS for IPv6 client networks

2010-09-14 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2010-09-14 14:27, Elmar K. Bins wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am looking for operational experience here. > > We have just turned up IPv6 in our "guest wireless", by way of using RA > for address distribution and DHCPv6 for the DNS server address (stupid, yup). Unfortunately not a lot of gear under

Reverse DNS for IPv6 client networks

2010-09-14 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hi guys, I am looking for operational experience here. We have just turned up IPv6 in our "guest wireless", by way of using RA for address distribution and DHCPv6 for the DNS server address (stupid, yup). Apart from the dhcp6 part seemingly not working on Juniper ISGs (or maybe it's my windows *