[RFCI-Discuss] IPv6 and BogusMX

[Derek J. Balling]

So there's been a lot of IPv6 talk lately, and what it means for  
bogusmx.

Well, we've reached a critical-mass of "requests for support", so I've  
begun testing a revamped bogusmx checker that (I *think*) will  
adequately test bogusmx criteria in the IPv6 space.

However, it's worth pointing out, that I personally know NOTHING about  
IPv6 netmasks, etc.  I'm relying on a list of bogons detailed here:

	http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-address-space

and the fact that Net::CIDR knows how to "find out if an IPv6 address  
is in a given subnet declaration".

What does that mean?

It means I have no way of testing it. :-)

So here's what I need, you can do this privately to me if you like:

	- A couple syntactically valid IPv6 addresses ... things which I  
could use to
		- prove that doing a straight MX_hostname -> valid_ipv6 test "passes"
		- prove that doing MX points to IPv6 address fails
	- A couple RFC-bogus IP addresses (as defined by the above-mentioned  
URL) so I can
		- prove that situating an MX_hostname in bogon-IPv6-space will  
generate a "fail"

I'll throw those addresses (and a couple others) into my own personal  
little "scrap workspace" that I use for testing changes to bogusmx.  
Once I think it's "ready for prime-time", we'll push it live and  
hopefully, all five people that are using IPv6 will be ok. :-)

Cheers,
D

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