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Oops, sorry, I only meant to show the general form of a PTR record, based on
Re: Reverse DNS, do I have to do them all individually?
From: Global Homes Webmaster
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2002
Time: 2:08:59 pm
the backwards example in the original post. It wasn't meant as an example of a
PTR that would actually work in any particular real-world situation. Of
course, for PTRs to be useful, you'd likely want individual IP addresses to
point hostnames which match A records in some existing zone. Sorry for the
confusion.
On 01/17/02 at 13:54, Men & Mice Support wrote:
> Yes, the wildcard record below would work, in the sense that it would
> effectively create a PTR record for each IP address. If you wanted to
> add specific PTR records for certain IP addresses, this wildcard
> would not interfere.
>
> However, anybody who tries to resolve "somehost.drbott.com." would
> get, at best, one of your IP addresses. This would likely not match
> up against the IP address they started with. This may cause you
> problems.
> ____________________________________________________________________
> Chris Buxton Men & Mice
> support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy
>
> At 1:18 PM -0800 1/17/02, Eric Prentice wrote:
> >So would something like this work?
> >
> >on 1/17/02 9:56 AM, Global Homes Webmaster at webmaster@globalhomes.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> That wouldn't work at all -- PTR's go the other way, mapping the
> >>IP address to
> >> a domain name:
> >>
> >> *.124.242.64.in-addr.arpa. PTR somehost.drbott.com.
>
>
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