Subject: Re: ip6.int -> ip6.arpa ?
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/16/2002 17:43:12
rhialto@polderland.nl (Olaf Seibert) writes:

>On Sun 16 Jun 2002 at 04:50:29 +0000, Sean Doran wrote:
>> | Why?  IPv6 is defined to use ip6.int.
>> History marches along... check the NS RRs for each zone.

>Why are they changing this so late in the game?? There must be a *very*
>good reason for such a thing...


Actually there was a good reason to use ip6.int: lack of control
over the .arpa TLD. Adding something to .int was much easier to do.

It just has been corrected as "it should have been right from the
beginning".


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