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(usagi-users 01332) Re: does linux resolve ip6.int addresses?



On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [iso-2022-jp] 吉藤英明 wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0203221616070.1770-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:18:59 +0100 (CET)), Mauro Tortonesi <mauro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:
> 
> > i have been told that linux only resolves ip6.arpa addresses. is this
> > true? i am actually skimming glibc-2.2.4 code to find this out.
> 
> True; and it seems to use bit-label notation.
> I think we should fix this problem...

What do you mean by fixing?

glibc uses reverse nibbles in ip6.arpa, which is correct.

Whether ip6.arpa _and_ ip6.int should be tried as a transitionary
mechanism is another issue though.

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