newbie: can I have 2 A records?

[Razvan Bruma]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Nate Duehr wrote:

> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 02:26:47 -0600
> From: Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>
> To: Razvan Bruma <razvan at rartel.ro>
> Cc: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: Re: newbie: can I have 2 A records?
> 
> 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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	I was't saying this. I meant , if you have, e.g.

foo.bar.org.		A	1.2.3.4
foo.bar.org.		A	5.6.7.8

	you should also have
1.2.3.4.in-addr.arpa.	PTR	foo.bar.org.
5.6.7.8.in-addr.arpa.   PTR	foo.bar.org.

	But, trying to answer your (unrelated) question, I never heard of
such a requirement. I could be wrong, though.


Razvan Bruma
Unix System Administrator
email: razvan at rartel.ro