Search Again: Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2004 Time: 1:58:12 pm At 3:28 PM +0000 11/9/04, Stuart Douglas wrote: >From: "Men & Mice Support" <cbuxton@menandmice.com> >Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:46:00 -0800 > >>Setting up reverse DNS records isn't as straightforward as it sounds. >>First, you must figure out if the reverse zone belongs to your server. > >>With a regular domain name, when you register the domain, it's >>delegated to your server. A reverse zone must be similarly delegated, >>but "registration" is typically handled with your ISP rather than >>with a central registrar. > >>I looked up the PTR record delegation for ns.groovychocolate.com. The >>ednet.co.uk servers do in fact delegate your reverse records to your >>server. The zone name (called "domain name" in QuickDNS Pro 2.x) is: > >>233.20.212.in-addr.groovychocolate.com. > >>Creative, and perfectly legal. You don't even need to separate these >>into a reverse zone if you don't want to - just create records like >>this for each of your IP addresses: > >>82.233.20.212.in-addr.groovychocolate.com. PTR mail.groovychocolate.com. > >Ah, I was doing fine until this point Chris - our mail server and >Quick DNS are both on the 82 box, so I've already got a record : > >82.233.20.212.in-addr.groovychocolate.com. PTR ns.groovychocolate.com > >Is it allowable to have both records, ie: > >82.233.20.212.in-addr.groovychocolate.com. PTR mail.groovychocolate.com >82.233.20.212.in-addr.groovychocolate.com. PTR ns.groovychocolate.com It's not against the rules, but it's a bad idea in this case. You should have just the one pointing to mail.groovychocolate.com. Chris Buxton Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy Customer Service and Sales Engineer

Messages In This Thread: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Stuart Douglas on Nov 8, 2004 at 7:06:06 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Men & Mice Support on Nov 8, 2004 at 9:48:05 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Stuart Douglas on Nov 9, 2004 at 7:28:43 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Men & Mice Support on Nov 9, 2004 at 1:58:12 pm Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Stuart Douglas on Nov 11, 2004 at 9:13:07 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Men & Mice Support on Nov 11, 2004 at 9:37:42 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Stuart Douglas on Jan 17, 2005 at 8:01:02 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Men & Mice Support on Jan 17, 2005 at 11:48:15 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Stuart Douglas on Jan 19, 2005 at 3:42:42 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Men & Mice Support on Jan 19, 2005 at 11:25:53 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Stuart Douglas on Jan 21, 2005 at 8:51:36 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Men & Mice Support on Jan 21, 2005 at 10:15:33 am