Probably a *very* stupid question....

Ola Nyström onm at algo.net
Tue Nov 16 17:23:23 UTC 1999


On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, JJ wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> Is it possible to do a round-robin on PTR records ??
> 
> 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.  IN PTR server.company.com.
> 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.  IN PTR server.uk.company.com.
> 
> I've tried this on a server but a lookup of 192.168.0.1 always returns the
> last address....

IFAIK there is no roundrobin on PTR. Why would you like to do that?
You should use CNAME on the hostname instead.

server		IN	A	192.168.0.1
server.uk	IN	CNAME	server


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