[PLUG] What a mess... No reverse record for this PCC site...

[Ed Sawicki]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 11:50, Stafford A. Rau wrote:
> * Michael C. Robinson <michael at goose.robinson-west.com> [031001 10:59]:
> > On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 23:32, Russell Senior wrote:
> > > 
> > > This reminds me of RFC 3514[1].  Once that is more widely implemented,
> > > I think all our problems will go away.
> > > 

> > One oddity with monster.com is that their reverse record is to
> > a different name than their A record is from.  I can resolve 
> > monster.com to a number where that number resolves to a
> > different name.  Is this a correct configuration?  Why would 
> > someone set up their dns this way?
> 
> This is normal - consider hosting multiple email/web/whatever domains on
> a single host with a single ip address. Many many different dns A
> records can point to the same IP address, but a reverse or PTR record
> for an IP can only return one host name.

This is not true. A reverse lookup may return numerous PTR records.
Whether the software asking the question will understand multiple
answers is another matter.

Ed