PTR records are reverse entries.
Do you need them? Not necessarily. Will it make life easier for your
users? Absolutely. You wouldn't believe the number of services/sites
that will not allow you access if your IP doesn't resolve to a valid
domain name.
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Jacob Killian wrote:
> Hello there.
>
> I need to add a DNS entry for hosts on a DHCP network, so that these hosts can
> connect to secure sites which do a reverse DNS lookup.
>
> The only way I can think to do this would be to add entries along the lines of:
>
> 208244221001.domain.com. IN A 208.244.221.001**
> 208244221002.domain.com. IN A 208.244.221.002**
> **These are neither real IPs nor real domain names.
>
> So, would this work? Would I also need PTR records or reverse entries too?
>
> Thanks,
>
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