PTR records for v6 hosts

Martin List-Petersen martin at airwire.ie
Mon Aug 31 09:14:44 CEST 2009


Seth Mattinen wrote:
> I'm curious as to how everyone is doing PTR records in DNS for their v6
> hosts. Are you just letting autoconf hosts go without? Do you manually
> create one once you know what it's autoconf address will be? Or do you
> use DHCP with a predefined pool that's easy to create a PTR range for?

We let our DNS create hostnames (ptr and aaaa) on the fly/dynamically,
based on a prefix pattern. For that we used powerdns and the pipe backend.

I didn't feel like generating tons of zone files.

Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen
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