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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