PTR records

[Michele Chubirka]

The CNAME record is for that purpose. Why does it show up as an error if a
DNS database has multiple A records for one IP address in most DNS
diagnostic tools? Why even have CNAME records. While Bind may still work,
the RFCs still seem to imply that it's cleaner to use one A name per IP and
CNAMES referring to the A record.

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Len Conrad
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 7:03 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: RE: PTR records




>I thought it was very BAD form to have two A records pointing to the same
>IP. You're not supposed to do this, it's a conflict, right?

no, how do you think 100's of virtual www servers and smtp servers
share the same ip?

It's such good form that the ARIN/RIPE ip authorities encourage it heavily.

Len