PTR records for v6 hosts

Stig Venaas stig at venaas.com
Mon Aug 31 19:57:41 CEST 2009


Bjørn Mork wrote:
[...]
> But I still wonder how the ISP is supposed to know when and where to
> delegate the reverse zone.  I wouldn't want to just blindly delegate it
> and end up having lots of lame delegations around.  So I would have to
> wait for the RG to answer queries before enabling the DNS delegation.
> Which I guess would be at least a few seconds after the DHCP-PD
> finished.

Would it be useful to have some DHCP option that the RG could use to
request a delegation? It could perhaps be part of the DHCP-PD request.

Stig

> Or maybe just enable it blindly first, accepting some lame delegations
> for a while, and do a periodical scan to find delegations which should
> be disabled?  Hmm, I'm going to have about a million of those...  Need
> to think about this for a while.
> 
> 
> Bjørn



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