You are right in that the dig that ships with BIND 9.2.2 works the way you described. This will change in 9.2.3 and 9.3.0. In the meantime you can use the dig from BIND 8 even if you run BIND 9.2.2 as the server. Joao At 21:56 +0200 5/6/03, Simon Leinen wrote:
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.