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Show HN: Ip6.name – A DNS record for any IPv6 address

3 points| Tho85 | 9 years ago |ip6.name | reply

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[+] Tho85|9 years ago|reply

Announcement: https://blog.tho.ms/network/2017/02/25/ip6-name-dns-record-a...

I had the idea when I needed a TLS certificate for a system without a global DNS record. I recalled that http://xip.io/ exists for IPv4, but didn't find something similar for IPv6. So I had to do it myself :-)

[+] p1mrx|9 years ago|reply

These names are incompatible with the "host" command-line utility, probably because looking up the A record returns NXDOMAIN instead of NOERROR.

NXDOMAIN means "this name doesn't exist, so don't bother asking for other record types."

[+] Tho85|9 years ago|reply

Thanks for the feedback, I somehow missed that mistake. As a quick fix the server now returns NOERROR for both unknown records and names. That's still not 100% correct, but better than nothing.