Search Again: Re: mailserver A''s/CNAME''s From: Global Homes Webmaster Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2002 Time: 1:04:16 pm On 01/09/02 at 14:54, Len Conrad wrote: > >I assume that it's a bad idea to have 2 A records and 2 PTR records both > >pointing at the same IP. > > two PTR records for the same ip in the same zone file is useless, since > most apps only look at the first one. And, worse, there's no guarantee which one will be returned first, so it's russian roulette as to which hostname will be the result of a reverse query. Christopher Bort | cbort@globalhomes.com Webmaster, Global Homes | webmaster@globalhomes.com <http://www.globalhomes.com/> | PGP public key available on request

Messages In This Thread: mailserver A''s/CNAME''s by andrew on Jan 9, 2002 at 12:50:17 pm Re: mailserver A''s/CNAME''s by Len Conrad on Jan 9, 2002 at 12:54:44 pm Re: mailserver A''s/CNAME''s by Global Homes Webmaster on Jan 9, 2002 at 1:01:40 pm Re: mailserver A''s/CNAME''s by Global Homes Webmaster on Jan 9, 2002 at 1:04:16 pm Re: mailserver A''s/CNAME''s by andrew on Jan 9, 2002 at 1:33:00 pm Re: mailserver A''s/CNAME''s by Philip Chonacky on Jan 9, 2002 at 1:43:59 pm Re: mailserver A''s/CNAME''s by andrew on Jan 9, 2002 at 2:35:19 pm Re: mailserver A''s/CNAME''s by Len Conrad on Jan 9, 2002 at 2:37:55 pm Re: mailserver A''s/CNAME''s by Len Conrad on Jan 9, 2002 at 3:07:21 pm Re: mailserver A''s/CNAME''s by andrew on Jan 9, 2002 at 3:37:54 pm