Help with db.domain and Reverse file

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu Nov 8 18:29:19 UTC 2001


In article <9se9nu$aa8 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Robin  <rlb at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>I read that you shouldn't have more than 1 PTR record pointing to
>the
>same host so I'm pretty confident that this setup is not correct.

There's no strict rule against it, but it's usually not necessary.

>Can someone point me in the right direction on how to handle this
>setup?

Pick one name and use it in the PTR record.  Or point your MX and NS
records to the same name, e.g.

  IN NS ns.xyz.com.
  IN MX 10 ns.xyz.com.

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