[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] 9/9/2004 IP6.INT Removal (Was: 9/9/2006 : ip6.int shutdown?)

Am Do, den 22.07.2004 schrieb Gert Doering um 16:12:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 01:12:02PM +0200, Christian Schild wrote:
> > I think the problem is not populating the new tree, but the resolvers
> > that try to query a reverse address. E.g. standard Fedora Core 1 (which
> > is not so old) still tries to query in ip6.int. 
> > 
> > It will take some time to get rid of the "ancient" operating systems and
> > as long as they exist, ip6.int. might be necessary.
> 
> Let's break these as quickly as possible.  So that people will *notice*
> that their crappy libraries need fixing.

Ok, then we have the choice if _we_ have to spend money for maintaining
two trees or if we want to force "them" to spend money for upgrading
their systems :-)

And yes, I saw the bitstring.arpa/nibble.int magic right away two days
ago on a FC1 system of one of my colleagues and told him he has to
upgrade to fix it. He answered "when he has time to fiddle about this".

And again yes, querying bitstrings.arpa/nibble.int is an old problem and
is fixed in all modern versions of OSes.

Christian

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