Multiple Domains with the same IP

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Fri Jan 31 20:56:17 UTC 2003


The client gets a list of PTR records in response to its reverse-DNS 
query. It only looks at the first one in the list.

                                                                        
    - Kevin

Bill Heese wrote:

>I'm not sure what you mean by "clients looking at the first PTR they see"?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin Darcy
>To: 'bind-users at isc.org'
>Sent: 1/31/2003 2:38 PM
>Subject: Re: Multiple Domains with the same IP
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>Bill Heese wrote:
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>>I have multiple domains such as cuisinart.com and cuisinart.biz
>>Both domains point to the same ip address
>>I've set up my .in-addr.arpa. to look like the below record.
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>>Is this correct? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in
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>advance..
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>>Bill
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>>; begin 24.94.130.in-addr.arpa.
>>; begin ptr cuisinart.ws.
>>;
>>$TTL 3h
>>@ IN SOA ns1.conair.com. dnsadmin.conair.com. (
>>	2003013101	; Serial (Format, YYYYMMDDVV)
>>	10800s		; Refresh after 3 hours
>>	3600s		; Retry after 1 hour
>>	604800s 	; Expire after 1 week
>>	86400s		; Minimum TTL of 1 day
>>	)
>>;
>>; nameserver
>>;
>>IN NS ns1.conair.com.
>>IN NS ns2.conair.com.
>>;
>>; hosts
>>;
>>49 IN PTR ftp.cuisinart.ws.
>>49 IN PTR mail.cuisinart.ws.
>>49 IN PTR www.cuisinart.ws.
>>49 IN PTR ftp.cuisinart.com.
>>49 IN PTR mail.cuisinart.com.
>>49 IN PTR www.cuisinart.com.
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>There's nothing "wrong" with it, but it's kind of pointless. Clients 
>only look at the first PTR they see in the list, so just pick one and 
>forget about the others.
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