In message <50EE4113.2000906@blakjak.net>, Mark Foster writes:
On 10/01/13 17:15, Karl Auer wrote:
FYI - I have a PTR for all IPs. Just general practice. All IPs actually in use, or all possible IPs in a network? If the latter, then it's not gunna fly for IPv6. Not at all. Not unless you synthesise the responses - in which case there is no point to requiring
On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 21:14 -0600, Otis L. Surratt, Jr. wrote: them anyway.
Regards, K.
$GENERATE, as someone else pointed out, solves that problem for you? (Does it scale for IPv6? I can't recall - but surely this could be scripted too.)
No. A /64 has 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses. Even if you had machines that supported zettabytes of data the zone would never load in human lifetimes.
I though the point of doing so was to establish with some degree of accuracy that there were 'real people' behind the administration of said IP, and that there was a somewhat increased level of accountability as a result - which suggests there is infact a point. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org