Many A-records

fih frhak at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 5 04:09:18 UTC 2004


Thanks for all comments.

Of course I'm wrong here a NIC could have more than one IP and therefore it
could also have many A-records.

"fih" <frhak at hotmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:c4og3m$208u$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> Hello guys!
>
> I was once told that a network interface should have only one A-record and
a
> corresponding PTR record. Since you probably know many people likes to
tweak
> this and I'm doing my best to fight it.
>
> While fightning it i also gets alot of questions about why we can't have
> many A-records pointing to the same IP. Does any body know if there is a
RFC
> or Best practise DNS documentation that i can refer to or am I totally
> wrong??
>
> Also if my company likes to sell services based on DNS names and we have
> customers that can't see the external namespace we use for our services.
> They want me to add fake A-records in the customers namespace so our
> services will have different names depending who is asking. This i don't
> like
> at all and i allready know that i will get in trouble with  SSL
> certificates.
> In my world we should instead make our service zone available
> for the customer.
>
> In my world a Network interface should have one but only one A-record.
>
> Comments please!!!
>
>



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