Subject: ip6.int depreciated
To: None <tech-net@NetBSD.org>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/31/2005 13:09:28
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Hi,
Quoting RTF4159:
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Network Working Group                                          G. Huston   =
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Request for Comments: 4159                                         APNIC   =
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BCP: 109                                                     August 2005   =
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Category: Best Current Practice                                            =
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                        Deprecation of "ip6.int"                           =
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1.  IPv6 Standards Action                                                  =
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   In August 2001 the IETF published [RFC3152], which advised that the     =
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   use of "ip6.int" as the domain for reverse-mapping of IPv6 addresses    =
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   to DNS names was deprecated.  The document noted that the use of        =
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   "ip6.int" would be phased out in an orderly fashion.                    =
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   As of 1 September 2005, the IETF advises the community that the DNS     =
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   domain "ip6.int" should no longer be used to perform reverse mapping    =
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   of IPv6 addresses to domain names, and that the domain "ip6.arpa"       =
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   should be used henceforth, in accordance with the IANA Considerations   =
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   described in [RFC3596].  The domain "ip6.int" is deprecated, and its    =
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   use in IPv6 implementations that conform to the IPv6 Internet           =
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   Standards is discontinued.                                              =
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FreeBSD is going to remove the ip6.int localhost example from their shipped
named.conf, should we do the same?

I don't know what ISC is going to do about this.

		-- Rui Paulo

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