Re: IPv6 DNS server and tspc client setting

["Josh Finlay" <montarotech@optusnet.com.au>]

Hi,

If you plan to configure reverse dns for your IPv6 addresses, then you will 
need to define the dns_server as the machine hosting your dns.

If you do not plan to do this, you can forget about it.

specifying dns_server tells the broker to delegate the specified server as 
the dns server for your /64 (or /48), otherwise either your broker will 
define reverse dns settings or none will be made at all (the ip wont resolve 
to anything..nothing wrong with that though).

Make sense?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <kmlhk79-ipv6@yahoo.com.hk>
To: "Josh Finlay" <montarotech@optusnet.com.au>
Cc: "ipv6 Debian" <debian-ipv6@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 5:59 PM
Subject: IPv6 DNS server and tspc client setting


> Dear Josh :
>
> Thanks for the info, but under what situtation I need
> to do that?
>
> In both cases, (leave it blank or not) I have to
> configure my DNS server(bind9) to have PTR record for
> reverse DNS .
>
> Why I need to specify it in my tspc.conf ? There are
> no gain to do that.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> K. M. Lau
>
>
>
> --- Josh Finlay <montarotech@optusnet.com.au> 說：
>
> > In regards to your post on
> > debian-ipv6@lists.debian.org in regards to "IPv6 DNS
> > server and tspc client setting":
> >
> > Incase you hadn't resolved your DNS issues with IPv6
> > Just allow me to clarify:
> >
> > dns_server in your tspc.conf is only to specify a
> > dns server that will be used for reverse dns on your
> > IP block, this is not the server that your computer
> > will use to resolve hosts to their IPv6 address.
> >
> > So if you plan to have your IPv6 addresses resolve
> > back to hostnames, then specify the dns server that
> > you have configured to do so (via PTR records in
> > bind9). Otherwise leave it blank. This will have no
> > effect on your ability to resolve hostnames that
> > have AAAA (IPv6) records assigned to it.
> >
> > hope this helps.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Josh Finlay
>
>
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