Search Again: Re: Reverse Domain From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2003 Time: 12:03:32 pm It's perfectly fine to have the PTR record point to some other name. The only service that I know of that really cares about the data portion of its PTR record is SMTP service. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy At 11:45 AM -0400 8/31/03, John May wrote: >Is there any good reason that a DNS server would need to have the >reverse lookup for it resolve to it's proper name (eg: >ns1.pointinspace.com)? > >Or is it OK to have it resolve to something else? > > - John > >-- > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >John May : President <http://www.pointinspace.com> >Point In Space Internet Solutions jmay@pointinspace.com > > LPA Corporate Partner / FSA Associate / ACN Member > > Lasso 5 + 6 / PHP / MySQL / FileMaker Pro Hosting Now Available!

Messages In This Thread: Reverse Domain by John May on Aug 31, 2003 at 8:47:31 am Re: Reverse Domain by Men & Mice Support on Sep 2, 2003 at 12:03:32 pm