[6bone] Re: ip6 conversion script

[tony@lava.net (Antonio Querubin)]

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Petr Baudis wrote:

> Only FYI, there already exists similiar tool by Keith Owens named ip6_int,
> available ie. at http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/tools/ip6_int, which does
> basically the same, but has less sophisticated output; on the other hand, it
> can be conviently used as host -a `ip6_int 3ffe:1234::1`, which is big
> advantage.

The ability to do this is already built-in to more recent OS host commands
(eg FreeBSD).  Also, there are PERL modules that already handle IPv6
transparently such as Net::IP.  Some of these are lagging though as
they're still outputting ip6.int instead of ip6.arpa but that should
change over time.