Subject: Re: reverse lookup file
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 01/28/2000 04:15:54
>likewise, the loopback address for ip16 falls under
>2.4 Address Type Representation
> The specific type of an IPv6 address is indicated by the leading bits
> in the address. The variable-length field comprising these leading
> bits is called the Format Prefix (FP). The initial allocation of
> these prefixes is as follows:
> Allocation Prefix Fraction of
> (binary) Address Space
> ----------------------------------- -------- -------------
> Reserved 0000 0000 1/256
> ...
>so i'd be tempted to do
> zone "0.0.ip6.int" { type master; file "0.0.ip6.int"; };
Please note that not everyting under ::/8 is for looopback. There
are other usage (:: is for unspecified, ::ffff:10.1.1.1 is for
v4 mapped, ::10.1.1.1 is for v4 compatible). Do you still prefer
::/8 (= 0.0.ip6.int.) to be declared in zone file?
itojun