Multiple aliases to one IP address

[Barry Margolin]

In article <94ndih$3oa at pub3.rc.vix.com>,  <freakshow56 at my-deja.com> wrote:
>Thanks a lot Barry.  Another question if you don't mind...I am looking
>at the records in and I see not only A and CNAME records, but PTR
>records too.  If I just add a CNAME record, will that be enough or do I
>need to add a matching PTR record too?

The PTR record should point to the primary name: the one with the A record.
If you have multiple A records you can have multiple PTR records, but it's
not normally necessary and I don't usually recommend it; pick one name and
use that.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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