Multiple PTR-records

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Tue Aug 31 03:01:05 UTC 2004


In article <ch04ha$2vc9$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Christopher Rasch-Olsen Raa <coff at technophile.info> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is it incorrect to specify more than one PTR record for the same IP. eg:
> I have one IP which hosts more than one site. www.something1.com,
> www.something2.com, www.something3.com and www.something4.com all points
> to 123.123.123.123, and I wonder if I should provide PTR-records for all
> of those names. Should I?

There's nothing prohibiting having multiple PTR records, but it's almost 
never necessary and can be confusing.  Pick one "main" name and use that 
in the PTR record.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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