[AusNOG] IPv6 Reverse DNS, was: ISP DNS Options

[David Beveridge]

Having two SQL records (AAAA & PTR) for every IPv6 address is not going to
scale very well.
That's a lot of rows if you have /32
I'm sure there is a much better way of doing this.

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Nick Stallman <nick at agentpoint.com> wrote:

> Yep. Admittedly not a lot of records, but there is no practical limit with
> that kind of set up.
>
>
> On 03/05/16 16:49, David Beveridge wrote:
>
> Do you have a reverse entry and matching AAAA record for every IPv6
> Address in your network?  or at least the ones in use?
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Nick Stallman <nick at agentpoint.com> wrote:
>
>> I use PowerDNS/MySQL for our IPv4 and v6 PTR records.
>>
>> It was pretty trivial to set up assuming you own your IP block.
>>
>> I don't allow customers to manage their own records but that is due to no
>> one wanting to do it, not because I can't.
>> It would be pretty trivial to add that capability.
>>
>>
>> On 03/05/16 14:15, David Beveridge wrote:
>>
>> I'd be more interested to know how people are solving the reverse DNS
>> problem in IPv6.
>>
>> Ideally customers should be able to self manage any static entries they
>> have and have a fall back for everything else, with matching AAAA of course.
>>
>> I just got an IPv6 PTR record done by Telstra and it took several weeks
>> to provision.
>>
>> I'm thinking of have a SQL database with PowerDNS (or ProBind) for the
>> statics and LUA or Perl plugin for the dynamics.
>>
>> dave
>>
>> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:38 PM, <paul%2Bausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au>
>> paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au < <paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au>
>> paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All, we are looking at DNS Server options for an ISP business of
>>> around 10,000 customers using ADSL, NBN, Ethernet, and Wireless services.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Currently the BIND solution which is in place is working but we are
>>> wondering what people would suggest as a next step that is easy to manage
>>> and cost effective to implement and that can grow with the business to
>>> handle 20-50,000 services eventually.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any advice would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
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> The Real Estate Web Developers
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