RFC: p6.arpa vs. ip6.int

Ben Collins bcollins@debian.org
Mon Feb 4 08:56:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:24:46AM -0600, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Monday, February 4, 2002, at 08:59  AM, Ben Collins wrote:
> > The main complaint is that .arpa is not
> >widely in use yet, so the current glibc is useless for ipv6.
> 
> AIX went with ip6.int as the default, for this very reason.
> .arpa will be supported, but we will allow for configuration
> to decide between the two.

Well I wish that glibc atleast worked with both. The code totally
neglects ip6.int.

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