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Subject: [6bone] .int / .arpa
From: pekkas at netcore.fi (Pekka Savola)
Date: Mon Feb 21 23:05:30 2005
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> My somewhat aging Red Hat Linux 9 system doesn't do this:
[...]
> But bitlabels never enter the picture.
>
> I installed this system somewhere in the second half of 2003. I can't imagine 
> they changed it to look up bitlabels after this...

In fact, they did -- this change was part of (misguided) glibc bugfix 
errata :-(

* Thu Oct 30 2003 Jakub Jelinek <[email protected]> 2.3.2-27.9.2
- fix getnameinfo and getaddrinfo with reverse IPv6 lookups
   (#101261)


> And why would there be a delay? BIND 9.3.0 doesn't support bitlabels so I 
> assume it returns an error so there shouldn't be any delays.

The problem is that glibc resolver (I don't know of others) does not 
react immediately when it gets a Format Error message -- but rather 
waits for 10 seconds or so.

Yep, this has been reported to glibc folks as well ...

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

References:
- [6bone] XS4ALL/AS3265: returning 6bone ipv6 address space
  - From: erik at xs4all.net (Erik Bos)
- [6bone] .int / .arpa
  - From: M.Wozniak at zehs.com.pl (Mariusz Woźniak)
- [6bone] .int / .arpa
  - From: tvo at enterzone.net (John Fraizer)
- [6bone] .int / .arpa
  - From: iljitsch at muada.com (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
- [6bone] .int / .arpa
  - From: tboss at research.earthlink.net (Tim Bosserman)
- [6bone] .int / .arpa
  - From: iljitsch at muada.com (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
- [6bone] .int / .arpa
  - From: gert at space.net (Gert Doering)
- [6bone] .int / .arpa
  - From: iljitsch at muada.com (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
- [6bone] .int / .arpa
  - From: frlinux at frlinux.net (FRLinux)
- [6bone] .int / .arpa
  - From: iljitsch at muada.com (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
- [6bone] .int / .arpa
  - From: pekkas at netcore.fi (Pekka Savola)
- [6bone] .int / .arpa
  - From: iljitsch at muada.com (Iljitsch van Beijnum)

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