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To: John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@CMU.EDU>
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Subject: Re: handling literals 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jun 1995 13:02:10 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 13:25:49 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>


John Gardiner Myers writes:
> perry@imsi.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes:
> > the : convention, but as domain names using the .ip6.int convention
> > (the equivalent of the IPv4 .in-addr.arpa convention.)
> 
> I like this idea at first blush.  I assume the relevant DNS server
> implementations would magically return A records for such things?

On v6 hosts, which don't exist yet, we can ask the DNS people to do
what we like, or we can just hack our mailers. On the v4 hosts, we
actually win big if we have the services return MX records.  You want
them to return MX records on IPv4 hosts to do gatewaying between the
v4 and v6 worlds, which is something that we otherwise would have to
write code in order to implement.

Perry