newbie: can I have 2 A records?
Nate Duehr
nate at natetech.com
Thu Apr 5 08:40:13 UTC 2001
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:40:10AM +0300, Razvan Bruma wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Nate Duehr wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 02:26:47 -0600
> > From: Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>
> > To: Razvan Bruma <razvan at rartel.ro>
> > Cc: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> > Subject: Re: newbie: can I have 2 A records?
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:00:11AM +0300, Razvan Bruma wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Lik wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes. You can have any number of A records describing one
> > > name. Make sure also that your reverses are pointing in the right
> > > direction too.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:31:53 +0800
> > > > From: Lik <nospam at nospam.nospam>
> > > > To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> > > > Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.dns, comp.protocols.dns.bind
> > > > Subject: newbie: can I have 2 A records?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Can I have 2 A records as in:
> > > >
> > > > xserver A 172.18.2.200
> > > > xserver A 172.18.2.201
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> >
> > Actually it was my understanding that to be RFC compliant, there should
> > never be more than one PTR record per IP address. Is this not true?
> >
> > --
> > Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>
> >
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>
> I was't saying this. I meant , if you have, e.g.
>
> foo.bar.org. A 1.2.3.4
> foo.bar.org. A 5.6.7.8
>
> you should also have
> 1.2.3.4.in-addr.arpa. PTR foo.bar.org.
> 5.6.7.8.in-addr.arpa. PTR foo.bar.org.
>
> But, trying to answer your (unrelated) question, I never heard of
> such a requirement. I could be wrong, though.
Ah - thanks, I understand what you were trying to say now, and am
wondering how I missed it. :-) LOL!
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Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>
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