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. :(
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.
Do these free HE assigned IPv6 prefix(es) just remain valid indefinitely even when not actually being used/routed?
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. :(
That would be my assumption, although I wouldn't bet on it being as stable as a traditional domain registration
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.
> Once DNS finishes propagating
Say what?
A lie. DNS doesn't propagate.
whoops good catch, I had thought it was a synonym for the record ttl's expiring
I'll go fix it now