Joao Luis Silva Damas writes:
At 18:05 +0200 2/6/03, Simon Leinen wrote:
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?
The one from BIND 9.2.2. Apparently that's not new enough.
dig 8.3 certainly does not use bit-labels (and it composes the reverse query using ip6.arpa, not ip6.int).
The problem is that we use BIND 9 around here.
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).
Maybe in the current BIND8 dig, not in the current BIND9 dig. -- Simon.