Michael Dillon wrote:
One of the stated uses of .INT is for international databases and that seems to be the reason that the reverse DNS for IPv6 is under .INT rather than .ARPA. Of course it may not be too late for IPv6 to be changes and for all important infrastructure info to be moved to .ARPA. We could even rationalize things somewhat, i.e.
IN-ADDR.ARPA IP6.ARPA NET.ARPA for IP netblock whois info ARIN.NET.ARPA | RIPE.NET.ARPA |-queries to NET.ARPA will be redirected to one of these APNIC.NET.ARPA | RS.ARPA - route servers IANA.ARPA - IANA databases such as MIBs, port assignments
Quoted from RFC 1032: "ARPA" is a temporary domain. It is by default appended to the names of hosts that have not yet joined a domain. When the system was begun in 1984, the names of all hosts in the Official DoD Internet Host Table maintained by the NIC were changed by adding of the label ".ARPA" in order to accelerate a transition to the domain-naming system. Another reason for the blanket name changes was to force hosts to become accustomed to using the new style names and to modify their network software, if necessary. This was done on a network-wide basis and was directed by DCA in DDN Management Bulletin No. 22. Hosts that fall into this domain will eventually move to other branches of the domain tree. IN-ADDR.ARPA. is an obvious exception (reasoning in RFC 973), but I think it's clear that the above info has no place being put in ARPA. My vote's for NIC.INT. I'm still searching for the correct RFC on INT rules to see if that's appropriate, however. Stephen -- Stephen Sprunk "Oops." Email: sprunk@paranet.com Sprint Paranet -Albert Einstein ICBM: 33.00151N 96.82326W