Multiple PTR or not?

jeff donovan jdonovan at dns.beth.k12.pa.us
Thu Aug 8 13:51:59 UTC 2002


Hi, thanks for the reply

>Jeff its easy to comphrehend mapping 2 domain names into 1 PTR. But, it
>is almost meaningless to map 1 PTR into 2 domain addresses. Which one can
>it be? So, if you put 2 PTR records there, resolvers will get one or the
>other, somewhat randomly. They never get the "right one" because they
>dont get to make the choice. So, since you have a 50% chance of gettig
>the "wrong" one, you might as well just have 1 PTR, and folks will still
>be "wrong" 50% of the time.
>  Very few softwares actually care if the forward DNS entry matches the
>reverse. UUNets's FTP site seems to. and systems running TCP Wrappers
>might care, but it's pretty rare. -pat

ok that makes sense.

so is it ok to create zone1 and zone2 with the same addresses and 
have the PTR records reverse to zone1?

--j


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