Multiple PTR records for one IP?

[Dawn Connelly]

It's legal...it just might not be smart as far as your environment is
concerned.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Peter Laws <plaws at ou.edu> wrote:

> Dawn Connelly wrote:
> > It works, but the question you have to ask is what are you trying to
> > achieve with the PTR record. If something is doing reverse
> > authentication, it will fail half the time. If you are using PTR records
> > just to document stuff and it doesn't really matter, you can have as
> Yeah, but is it *legal* RFC-wise.  I know it works, but that means little.
>
> We're converting to GENERATE for a bunch of documentation-related
> placeholder records and I want to know how far to go cleaning up dupes that
> have crept in.
>
> Your "half the time" example is, I think, going to be why I go on a
> cleaning binge ...
>
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