newbie: can I have 2 A records?

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Thu Apr 5 08:26:47 UTC 2001


On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:00:11AM +0300, Razvan Bruma wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Lik wrote:
> 
> 	Yes. You can have any number of A records describing one
> name. Make sure also that your reverses are pointing in the right
> direction too.
> 
> 
> > Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:31:53 +0800
> > From: Lik <nospam at nospam.nospam>
> > To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> > Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.dns, comp.protocols.dns.bind
> > Subject: newbie: can I have 2 A records?
> > 
> > 
> > Can I have 2 A records as in:
> > 
> >      xserver    A     172.18.2.200
> >      xserver    A     172.18.2.201
> > 
> >  Thanks

Actually it was my understanding that to be RFC compliant, there should
never be more than one PTR record per IP address.  Is this not true?

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Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>

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