Ansgar Wiechers a écrit : > On 2009-10-29 Phillip Smith wrote: >>>> Tell the admin of the remote domain to fix their PTR records and/or >>>> MX helo configuration because in the meantime, you're going to have >>>> to implement a dirty hack to make their server work. >>> But the PTR needs no "fix". >>> >>> The IP resolves to a hostname perfectly fine , only that the hostname >>> does not resolve. >> Then a) it doesn't resolve perfectly -- it should resolve both ways. >> And b) any given IP address should only have *one* corresponding PTR >> record, not multiple PTR's. For one, it causes problems like this. > > It's a perfectly valid and supported DNS feature to have multiple PTR > records. If this causes problems, then the respective application is at > fault, not DNS. >
Using multiple PTRs brings nothing but problems. there is nothing bad with a setup like this: 192.0.2.1 PTR uranus.example.com uranus.example.com A 192.0.2.1 www.example.com A 192.0.2.1 ftp.example.com A 192.0.2.1 blog.example.com A 192.0.2.1 wiki.example.com A 192.0.2.1 ...