[Asrg] DNSxL notation for IPv6?

John Levine asrg at johnlevine.com
Tue Sep 18 09:20:07 EDT 2007


>> What would make sense, and what not?  What has already been tried?

In my DNSxL draft, soon to be an RFC we hope, I say that it's nibble
reversed hex, the same as v6 rDNS.

>> Besides the bandwidth argument (is this a valid argument?)
>
>I don't think so.  Reversed-nibble takes 64 bytes of DNS packet
>contents (alternating length bytes and nibble-in-ASCII-hex bytes); I
>don't consider this large enough to be an issue, especially since it
>will normally occur only once per packet, even if multiple records are
>returned, thanks to name compression.

Quite right.  Any normal v6 query or response should fit in a 512 byte
packet, and that's all that matters.

R's,
John



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