Search Again: Re: more than one name for an IP address From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 Time: 7:58:54 pm At 1:18 PM -0700 5/17/00, Systems wrote: >Question: > >Another ISP is hosting a domain, but we are hosting mail and a webserver on >a subdomain. >My understanding is that a name can have more than one associated IP adress >but not the otherway around. Is that within the same domain or accross all >domain names. Incorrect. It is perfectly permissible to have multiple A records pointing to the same IP address. Just don't try to have a PTR record for each A record. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: more than one name for an IP address by Systems on May 17, 2000 at 1:18:06 pm Re: more than one name for an IP address by Global Homes Webmaster on May 17, 2000 at 1:50:30 pm Re: more than one name for an IP address by Men & Mice Support on May 17, 2000 at 7:58:54 pm Re: more than one name for an IP address by Jerry Pasker-Systems Admin. on May 30, 2000 at 2:51:04 pm Re: more than one name for an IP address by Men & Mice Support on May 30, 2000 at 3:11:16 pm Re: more than one name for an IP address by Jerry Pasker on May 30, 2000 at 9:13:12 pm