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IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation
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IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation

by Qing Li, Jinmei Tatuya, Keiichi Shima
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1008 pages
35h 43m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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274 Chapter 3—DNS for IPv6
manages a prefix 2001:db8:1234:abcd::/64, the corresponding ip6.arpa zone is
d.c.b.a.4.3.2.1.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa.
Just like a zone for IPv4 reverse mapping, this ip6.arpa zone will usually only contain SOA,
NS, and PTR resource records. For example, the reverse mapping for www.kame.example in
the preceding example is represented in this zone as follows:
1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0 PTR www.kame.example.
Previously, the obsolete well-known domain suffix for IPv6 reverse mapping, ip6.int,
coexisted with ip6.arpa, and resolver implementations varied: some only used ip6.int,
and others only tried ip6.arpa. Zone administrators ...
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ISBN: 9780080489308