Topic 'Re: [IPv6] Residential IPv6 rDNS' in forum 'Comcast HSI' - dslreports.com

Re: [IPv6] Residential IPv6 rDNS

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:20:37 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : I just want to make sure that all these changes are not going to make my native supported IPv6 router incompatible.

Re: [IPv6] Residential IPv6 rDNS

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:58:20 EDT

jlivingood posted :

said by whfsdude:

There is debate on rDNS for end-nodes in IPv6 land. It doesn't really make a lot of sense for non-servers - especially when you consider privacy addressing.

I think it's safe to say you won't see custom PTR records on Comcast residential service. It is up-in-air if you will see PTRs of any sort.

Well said!
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Re: [IPv6] Residential IPv6 rDNS

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:44:48 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : ok thanks for the explanation.

Re: [IPv6] Residential IPv6 rDNS

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:23:19 EDT

whfsdude posted : There is debate on rDNS for end-nodes in IPv6 land. It doesn't really make a lot of sense for non-servers - especially when you consider privacy addressing.

I think it's safe to say you won't see custom PTR records on Comcast residential service. It is up-in-air if you will see PTRs of any sort.

Re: [IPv6] Residential IPv6 rDNS

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:22:02 EDT

zaphoyd posted : In general it means that doing a reverse lookup of a residential IPv6 address doesn't return anything. This affects services that require valid reverse DNS for anti-spam/IP reputation purposes and affects systems that attempt reverse lookups in order to display a more friendly name rather than an IP address.

The AUP comments above are likely due to the primary reasons you would want rDNS, and that is to run servers, especially mail servers, which typically wont work at all without valid rDNS. In this case you probably want a business account, which as far as I know will in fact make rDNS entries for you.

In my case, for residential use, I am mostly interested in setting up dns to individually ID my home machines (now that IPv6 actually gives you more than one address). Because IPv6 addresses are so much longer and harder to remember this is almost exclusively done with DNS now.

So if I log into a website or SSH or something that says "your last login was from xxx" usually they will do an rDNS lookup and show you that instead of the IP. Game servers often use rDNS to list participants. At work it is nice to be able to catch traffic from my home machines in our stats/monitoring at a glance.

It is trivial to set up forward DNS (so you can type ssh foo.mynetwork.net) but reverse DNS has to be either performed or delegated by the ISP.

Re: [IPv6] Residential IPv6 rDNS

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:23:36 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : How does this affect users of IPv6?

Re: [IPv6] Residential IPv6 rDNS

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:10:12 EDT

graysonf posted : Acceptable Use Policy

Re: [IPv6] Residential IPv6 rDNS

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:06:33 EDT

Mike Wolf posted : AUP?

Re: [IPv6] Residential IPv6 rDNS

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 10:30:12 EDT

beachintech posted : They currently do not as far as I know. AUP's still apply with IPv6 and residential accounts.
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[IPv6] Residential IPv6 rDNS

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 10:09:08 EDT

zaphoyd posted : Does anyone know if Comcast has any rDNS plans or options for addresses on the /64 prefix being delegated to residential customers?