[dns-operations] IPv6 PTR best practice

[Alarig Le Lay]

Hi,

On mer.  9 mai 12:27:10 2018, John Levine wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.1805082245080.19081 at byq-nqzva.cvkrytngr.arg> you write:
> >> The *MASSIVE* number of /unneeded/ records would be astonishing.  Not to
> >> mention the amount of resources that said records would consume.
> 
> Well, let's see.  My home LAN uses one /64 out of the /56 that my ISP
> assigns.  Let's assume that each PTR record uses a modest 30 bytes
> since both the name and the data can use label compression.  So 2**64
> records times 30 bytes comes to about 500 million terabytes.  Seems
> bulky, don't think it would fit in my garage.  And, of course, each of
> my neighbors will need another 500M terabytes in their garages, too.

You don’t necessary have to store them, you could generate it on the
fly.

Here are some examples, with auto-generated and static reverses (and the
static one is outdated):
10:30 alarig at mew ~ % dig +short -x 2a00:5884:8316::1
tregon-grifon.swordarmor.fr.
10:30 alarig at mew ~ % dig +short -x 2a00:5884:8316::2
ip6-2a00-5884-8316-0000-0000-0000-0000-0002.tregon-grifon.swordarmor.fr.
10:30 alarig at mew ~ % dig +short -x 2a00:5884:8316:dead:beef:cafe::42
ip6-2a00-5884-8316-dead-beef-cafe-0000-0042.tregon-grifon.swordarmor.fr.

I’m using knot with mod-synth-record to achieve this.

-- 
alarig
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