[Pdns-users] Wildcards for ipv6 PTR Records?

[Peter van Dijk]

Hello Philippe,

On 06 Mar 2014, at 10:03 , Philippe M <m_philippe at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> is it possible wo wildcard ipv6 PTR Records?

There is nothing special about PTRs, and you can wildcard them according to the same rules as any other record.

> I tried to do wildcard records like:
> *.w.w.w.w.x.x.x.x.y.y.y.y.z.z.z.z.ip6.arpa

This should work.

> *.*.w.w.w.w.x.x.x.x.y.y.y.y.z.z.z.z.ip6.arpa

This does not work.

> The Reason why i want the Wildcards:
> When i try to "rectify-zone w.w.w.w.x.x.x.x.y.y.y.y.z.z.z.z.ip6.arpa"
> The Problem is, that i can't rectify these ipv6 reverse-lookup zones without having the upper record of the PTR Records. (for example: 
> Powerdns wants to reate the following record:
> Error: GSQLBackend unable to insert empty non-terminal rr 0.1.1.2.0.2.1.2.0.w.w.w.w.x.x.x.x.y.y.y.y.z.z.z.z.ip6 
> in domain_id xxxx: PostgreSQL failed to execute command: ERROR:  null value in column "type" violates not-null constraint
> for this PTR Record:
> 1.3.1.0.1.8.1.0.1.1.2.0.2.1.w.w.w.w.x.x.x.x.y.y.y.y.z.z.z.z.ip6
> 
> I know why it fails, that's not the point, that's why i wanted to create them manually.
> (For explanation the error comes from:
> STATEMENT:  insert into records (domain_id,name,type,auth) values ('xxxx','0.1.1.2.0.2.1.2.0.w.w.w.w.x.x.x.x.y.y.y.y.z.z.z.z.ip6',null,true)
> which failes because of the null type which powerdns tries to create.

Please update your schema to allow the NULLs!

Kind regards,
-- 
Peter van Dijk
Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV - http://www.netherlabs.nl/

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