At 18:05 +0200 2/6/03, Simon Leinen wrote:
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.
What version of dig are you using? dig 8.3 certainly does not use bit-labels (and it composes the reverse query using ip6.arpa, not ip6.int).
So you should always use the "-n" option to both "dig" and "host", when inverse-resolving IPv6 addresses, to enable the nibble-style method.
Not necessary any more (-n does not exist in the current dig). Cheers, Joao Damas ISC