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Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4 nslookup doesn't work
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4 nslookup doesn't work
- From: "Ben Liddicott" <ben.liddicott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Nov 22 05:08:03 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Bishop" <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Are there any disadvantages to having reverse lookup working? I remember
> some time ago being told by my colocation provider NOT to tick "Automatic
> Reverse Address Record Generation" when adding a new A record although they
> didn't seem to know why not.
The only think is that the reverse lookup record can only point to a single host name, wheras you can have multiple hostnames
pointing to one IP address.
On a RAQ you are probably setting up all your hostnames pointing to the same IP address. If you check the box, extra PTR records
will be created pointing back to all the different hostnames, and it will be pretty unpredictable which one anyone querying will
get. This probably doesn't matter for most purposes, but it is untidy.
Cheers,
Ben Liddicott