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This chapter described the use and implementation of IPv6 as it relates to the DNS. The chapter started by describing the long history of IPv6 starting around 1995 and suggested that a number of factors are currently causing a rapid increase in the spread and deployment of IPv6. A brief tutorial on IPv6 address notation was provided to allow the reader to become familiar with its format and usage.
The status of DNS support was clarified due to some confusion created by the withdrawal of support for bit labels and the A6 and DNAME RR by the IETF in RFC 3363. The current IETF IPv6 DNS recommendation specifies that forward mapping of IPv6 addresses will use the AAAA (Quad A) RR, and reverse mapping will use the PTR RR under the domain IPV6.ARPA.
In Chapter 6, we move from theory to practice by looking at the installation of BIND 9 on Linux, BSD (FreeBSD), and Windows platforms.
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(2005). DNS and IPv6. In: Pro DNS and BIND. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0050-5_5
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