Looking for DNS/Operational experience

Mike Leber mleber at he.net
Fri May 8 09:52:00 CEST 2009


Steve Bertrand wrote:
> I'm about to write up some Perl scripts to do some crafty work with
> router information, but before I dedicate my time to it (I'm about all
> we have at our small SP), I thought I'd ask if there is anything of the
> like:
> 
> - any UNIX command-line tool to convert a compressed v6 addr into a
> reverse DNS entry

Since you mentioned Perl, here is a way to do it with Perl:

$ perl -e 'use Net::IP;$ip=new Net::IP("2a02:c0:100::2/128");print 
($ip->reverse_ip()."\n");'

2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.c.0.0.2.0.a.2.ip6.arpa.

You'll probably find Net::IP very useful.  You can use it to write code 
that is nearly address family agnostic.

Mike.

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