Advise with MX records

Len Conrad LConrad at Go2France.com
Fri Aug 17 17:50:21 UTC 2001



>Simon> mail     IN A    1.2.3.4
>Simon> @        IN MX 5 mail
>
>two names having same A record in a zone file??? No problem
>
>ns2     IN      A       1.2.3.4
>mail    IN      A       1.2.3.4
>
>In which case mail will _not_ have a PTR record in the zone.rev

why not? it´s your choice with hostname to stick behind the PTR, so use 
mail hostname if you want.

>I am lost. sincerely....

your preconceptions are making it more complicated than it is.

>Some DNS test utils will bitterly complain about that, no?

no.  you can have as many hostnames using the same ip as you want.

only one of those hostnames can be used for that ip´s PTR.

Len


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