How do I correctly configure PTR records?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <8j9htp$mod$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, BadBoo  <bmeyer at rocsoft.net> wrote:
>Do I replace the $ORIGIN with @ in all the rev (db) files, or just the
>IN-ADDR.ARPA type files? (I guess that would be called PTR records and
>the rev (db) are called ZONE files?) I will be trying it in the
>meantime.

@ can be used in any zone file as a shorthand for the zone name.

>Ok, back to work, here are the snippets:

Looks good to me.

>I won't be leaving the TXT field in their. I just wanted to see if that
>works or not. (All work, and no play  makes bruce real tired boy)

You can put any kind of record in any zone.  TXT records can go just about
anywhere; there's no standard use for them, so you put them wherever you
find useful for your application.

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