Probably a *very* stupid question....

Ola Nyström onm at algo.net
Tue Nov 16 21:57:47 UTC 1999


On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jim Reid wrote:


>     Ola> IFAIK there is no roundrobin on PTR.
> 
> Round robin works on ANY set of identical resource records of any
> type.

I stand corrected.

> 
>     Ola> Why would you like to do that?
> 
> Good question. It makes no sense to me, but I presume it does to the
> original poster.
> 
>     Ola> You should use CNAME on the hostname instead.
> 
>     Ola> server		IN	A	192.168.0.1
>     Ola> server.uk	IN	CNAME	server
> 
> This is utterly wrong. What you've suggested above has got nothing
> whatsoever to do with PTR records.

It was the other end of it. If done in that way the PTR record would be
set up to point to only one ip-adress.

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