How to get a free .arpa domain

(hawksley.dev)

67 points | by ethanhawksley 2 days ago

3 comments

  • winstonwinston 2 days ago
    Do these free HE assigned IPv6 prefix(es) just remain valid indefinitely even when not actually being used/routed?
    • toast0 36 minutes 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.

      I 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 1 day ago
      That would be my assumption, although I wouldn't bet on it being as stable as a traditional domain registration
  • ggm 2 days ago
    Many people, including myself, tend to look at .arpa and think "oh yes, thats PTR queries" but forget the DNS doesn't have a global rule that ONLY the PTR query can be sent to the domain.

    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.

  • tosti 51 minutes ago
    > Once DNS finishes propagating

    Say what?

    • megagpt1 29 minutes ago
      A lie. DNS doesn't propagate.
      • ethanhawksley 23 minutes ago
        whoops good catch, I had thought it was a synonym for the record ttl's expiring

        I'll go fix it now