Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:38:04 -0500 (CDT) From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: jim@siteplus.net, jan@smartsoft.cc, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS: having domain1.com and domain1.net point to the same IP. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009291426290.43354-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <31877.970245833@verdi.nethelp.no>
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Wow, reverse lookups only match some of the time?!?! I may be off-base again, but I thought a lot of things wanted reverse host entries that matched exactly for security verification. I read your last comment, but want to know what folks think would really happen. - Jy@ On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > Reverse lookups are like Highlanders. "There can be only one." > > No. You can certainly have a reverse lookup returning multiple names. > Ie. the following is perfectly legal: > > $origin 3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. > 4 PTR name1.example.com. > 4 PTR name2.example.com. > 4 PTR name3.example.com. > > However, this does *not* necessarily mean that such a configuration > is good idea... > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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