Search Again: Re: PTR records From: Libby Millard Date: Thursday, July 24, 2003 Time: 9:36:46 am Since I wrote that, I have found out that I don't need a reverse zone, since I have finally gotten my test services running under OSXS 10.2.6 (file service and macintosh manager). I'm hoping that this will stay true when I finish setting up the final site in our school building. Thank you for all your help. Libby Millard On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 05:56 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote: > PTR records must almost always be separated into reverse zones. This > is because the name of the PTR record almost universally ends in > something other than the name of any forward zone. For example: > > 1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. > > This name doesn't end in example.com, so it can't be put into a zone > named example.com. > > If you have a case where the PTR record's name doesn't end in > in-addr.arpa, give us the specifics and we'll take a look. > ____________________________________________________________________ > Chris Buxton Men & Mice > Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy > > At 2:03 PM -0400 7/22/03, Libby Millard wrote: >> What is the best way to enter a PTR record in QuickDNS manager? >> Unless I create a reverse zone, I get an exclamation point and am not >> allowed to save the changes because of a badly formed entry. >> >> Libby Millard > >

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