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>I have setup a server with QDNS that works well on the internet. People can
Re: PTR records
From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Thursday, September 16, 1999
Time: 6:11:00 am
>access all of the services offered.
>
>DNS Expert tells me that there is no PTR record for 'ns1...." and 2 others.
>
>My upstream ISP has an in-addr.arpa form that allows me to type in names
>against IP numbers eg
>
>203.43.222.228 webserver.com.au
>203.43.222.227 ns1.webserver.com.au
>203.43.222.226 ns2.webserver.com.au
>
>When I put these in, DNS Expert doesn't report the error about PTR records.
>If I delete them, DNS Expert reports errors about PTR records.
That's probably because your ISP is responsible for your reverse zone,
which is used to map addresses back to names.
>Is this important?
Not for a name server.
There are reasons to have valid PTR records for your various machines, but
if the machine named "ns1" is just a DNS server and never runs anything
else, then a PTR record for it is not strictly necessary.
____________________________________________________________________
Chris Buxton Men & Mice
cbuxton@menandmice.com http://www.menandmice.com
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