What's going on here? Lots of PTR records for one address

[Nick Simicich]

At 01:07 AM 3/21/2001 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>
>Try this:
>
>dig -x 216.76.77.2 @ns2.cl.bellsouth.net
>
>Lots of PTR records for one address. Who's screwed up here? Is somebody
>poisoned? The NS record is also bogus.

This particular setup may be broken but, in general, there is nothing
wrong, bind wise, with having multiple PTR records returned.

The PTR records are generally not returned round robin so that there is the
idea of a primary (the first one), and most software has the, in my
opinion, poor idea that only one PTR record can be returned.

I could easily imagine keeping track (or providing an indication to the
casual digger) that these are the systems virtual hosted on this address,
for example.

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the list does not do it.
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