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From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Subject: Re: 64 bit IP addresses?
To: gpalmer@freebsd.org (Gary Palmer)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:14:30 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <22421.834427271@palmer.demon.co.uk> from Gary Palmer at "Jun 10, 96 06:21:11 pm"
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It seems that Gary Palmer said:
> 64 bit addressing == IPv6.

IPv6 uses  128 bits addresses  not  64 bits.  They'll look like  "ethernet"
adresses in hex : 1234:34bb:2323:876f:dead:beef:c0de:0000.

The test version T4B of bind 4.9.4  does support the  'AAAA' RR for 12 bits
addresses.

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Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #8: Sat Jun  8 15:07:49 MET DST 1996