Andrius Kasparavicius writes:
hi, why there is no "nameserver" records in inet6num? Also it would be useful to have reverse zones on ftp.ripe.net, like in-addr now is.
RIPE uses "domain" objects for this. Check out whois -h whois.ripe.net 0.8.7.7.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa
Also, maybe could someone explain why dig -x 2001:778:: NS doesn't work? Is it my fault?
Not really. As Jeroen noticed, "dig -x" (and "host" too) still use the bit-string method of inverse mapping by default, but that method has been demoted to "Experimental" and is no longer seeing significant development/deployment. So you should always use the "-n" option to both "dig" and "host", when inverse-resolving IPv6 addresses, to enable the nibble-style method. Still you probably don't get what you want by doing "dig -n -x 2001:778:: NS", because you are probably looking for the inverse delegation for 2001:778::/32 (or /36), not 2001:778::/128. And I don't think dig/host can invert addresses with non-host (/128 or /32) prefix-lengths. Would be a nice addition though! (Ignoring the issue of non-nibble/byte-aligned prefixes for now.) Regards, -- Simon.