Advise with MX records

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Aug 17 19:35:05 UTC 2001


In article <9ljj3d$sk3 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Odhiambo Washington  <wash at wananchi.com> wrote:
>two names having same A record in a zone file??? No problem
>
>ns2	IN	A 	1.2.3.4
>mail	IN	A	1.2.3.4
>
>In which case mail will _not_ have a PTR record in the zone.rev
>
>I am lost. sincerely....
>
>Some DNS test utils will bitterly complain about that, no?

Ignore the complaints, since there's no requirement that every A record
have a corresponding PTR record.

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