What record should I use?

Cricket Liu cricket at acmebw.com
Sat Aug 7 04:51:50 UTC 1999


Michael Voight <mvoight at cisco.com> wrote in message
news:<37A5A6F1.4A3553F1 at cisco.com>...
> You need to have a reverse domain that has PTR records that do not map
> to a non US or Canada domain, like .au, .ie, etc. In other words, .us,
> .ca, .mil, .com, .net, etc..
> However, as you will note, there are companies in foreign countries with
> .com.

Actually, you need PTR records that reverse map to domain names that return
a U.S. address when the target runs whois against them.  To see whether or
not your domain name qualifies, you can check
http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois.

cricket

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