Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 20:30:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.net> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: 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.4.21.0009292023030.1730-100000@veager.siteplus.net> In-Reply-To: <31877.970245833@verdi.nethelp.no>
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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 I am certainly aware that the entries can legally be made, however I have played with some and not found it to be very useful. In fact I don't know of any software that can make good use of it. This doesn't mean there isn't any. I just don't know of any. If you have done dnswalk and digs on various virtual domains around the net, I am sure that you have found DNS to be poorly configured on many occasions. I am sometimes surprised that the Internet works as well as it does. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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