Is my DNS set up properly for reverse lookups?

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Jun 25 13:44:15 UTC 1999


In article <930269193.598.6 at news.remarQ.com>,
Tim Lanza <Tim at Lanzahost.com> wrote:
>So, my reverse lookup zone (333.222.111-in-addr.arpa) will have pointers to
>all domains hosted like this?
>
>444 PTR www.forstdomain.com
>444 PTR www.seconddomain.com

Yes.  However, I don't recommend having multiple PTR records for the same
address.  It's legal, just potentially confusing.

>And are the separate forward lookup configs are correct?

Yes.

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