multiple reverse lookups to one ip?

[Kevin Darcy]

Søren Boll Overgaard wrote:

> Hello
>
> How are the DNS policies on having multiple canonical names, i.e. several
> PTR records pointing to one ip-address. I know it's no problem to set it up,
> but I would like to know how to control which PTR record is looked up as the
> default one. Is it randomly chosen or is the first one encountered by the
> DNS-query used per default?
>
> Could you please reply directly to me, as I dont get to check news all that
> often?

Although most record types are just "round-robin"ed, PTR records are treated as
a special case and always given in "fixed" order in responses, i.e. in the same
order that they appear in the master zone file.


- Kevin