IPv6 Ready The totd ('Trick Or Treat Daemon') DNS proxy Totd is a small DNS proxy nameserver that supports IPv6 only hosts/networks that communicate with the IPv4 world using some translation mechanism. Examples of such translation mechanisms currently in use are:

These translators translate map IPv4 to IPv6 connections and back in some way. In order for an application to connect through such a translator to the world beyond it needs to use fake or fabricated addresses that are routed to this translator. These fake addresses don't exist in the DNS, and most likely you would not want them to appear there either. Totd fixes this problem for now (until more elegant solutions emerge?) by translating DNS queries/responses for the faked addresses. totd constructs these fake addresses based on a configured IPv6 translator prefix and records it *does* find in DNS. Totd is merely a stateless DNS-proxy, not a nameserver itself. Totd needs to be able to forward requests to a real nameserver. In addition, totd has experimental support for reverse lookup of 6to4 addresses and for translation scoped address queries. See also, the README file and man page that ships with totd.

Copyrights

Copyright (C) 1998 WIDE Project. All rights reserved. Copyright (C) 1999-2009 F.W. Dillema. All rights reserved.

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Setup example

Vasaka Visoottiviseth made a nice figure of how to setup totd here (or this local cached copy).

Acknowledgements

Thanks to 6Net (EU project IST-2001-32603), http://www.6net.org/, for partially funding totd development. Thanks to Telenor FoU, Tromso for funding of and collaboration in building our IPv6-only wireless MAN infrastructure. Thanks to the Kame project (http://www.kame.net), and Itojun Hagino in particular, for bugfixes and patches and the support for scoped address rewriting. Thanks to Nathan Lutchansky for adding Linux support. Thanks to Simon Leinen for making totd work on Solaris. And finally, thanks to those that reported bugs or requested features.

Some other experimental things you could use totd for:

Totd can do some things that are more experimental. you can select at compile time whether you want these or not. Totd supports re-writing of scoped addresses in DNS responses and supports reverse namelookup for 6to4 names.

Contacting the author

This program was written by Feike W. Dillema. He can be contacted by searching for his email address feico@ his personal domain and sending him email with totd in the subject line.