How to get a free .arpa domain
86 points by ethanhawksley 3 days ago | 9 comments
winstonwinston 3 days ago
Do these free HE assigned IPv6 prefix(es) just remain valid indefinitely even when not actually being used/routed?
replytoast0 2 hours ago
If you don't use it at all, they do take the prefixes away. I lost a prefix when I did a house move and a server move and took a couple years to get around to setting up the tunnel... They didn't undelegate the DNS until I poked them to either please let me have the prefix back or fix DNS.
replyI have native ipv6 at home and on my hosting, so that's nice. Unfortunately the he.net tunnels are used for a lot of abuse now and you treated like a bot if you use them to go to popular websites. :(
ethanhawksley 2 days ago
That would be my assumption, although I wouldn't bet on it being as stable as a traditional domain registration
replypreisschild 47 minutes ago
You might not even need to go through HE. Many ISPs allow you to set your own PTR records / rDNS delegations if you ask them, since this is also necessary to host email servers.
replytosti 2 hours ago
> Once DNS finishes propagating
replySay what?
megagpt1 2 hours ago
A lie. DNS doesn't propagate.
replytoast0 3 minutes ago
There's certainly a process that is between form being submitted and all 5 of ns[1-5].he.net returning the new data. From experience with other DNS changes at he.net, successful response is returned over HTTP before the changes are visible via the name servers.
replyI don't see what's wrong with calling that process propagating a change. And since it's propagating the change to become available in DNS, propagating DNS fits. :P
That process doesn't really involve any caching resolvers between you and the authoritative, but since you had to wait for the changes to propagate to the authoritative servers and you're just doing more waiting until the caching resolvers re-query, I understand why people include waiting for caching revolvers when they say DNS propagation.
ethanhawksley 2 hours ago
whoops good catch, I had thought it was a synonym for the record ttl's expiring
replyI'll go fix it now
It's just a domain. You can put anything into your zone. A, AAAA, PTR, TXT, you can even put HESIOD records if you want to party like its Kerberos nineteen ninety IV.