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Re: [DoD Source -- ssshhhh Top Secret] Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

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On 7/9/20 5:03 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> but it still has nothing to do with your domain by definition, the PTR
> could be anything
Of course it can be, they're completely separate name spaces. However 
would it make any sense in practice to point it somewhere else entirely? 
You'd probably be better off not setting it at all then. I'd argue that 
they're meant to match each other.
> but how does that change anything in the simple fact that "Would the
> lack of A records affect pointer records? Seems like it would" given
> that the PTR zone is a dns zone like anything else
> while it's smart (at least when you want to send mails) that your IP has
> a sane PTR and that the name maps back to the IP the dns system couldn't
> care less
My thoughts exactly. They can technically be different and the DNS 
itself indeed couldn't care less (but applications checking for that 
might).. but would it make sense to? I mean yeah I suppose that they can 
exist without the other. Not uncommon for A records to be without PTR 
records, and I guess that a PTR record without an A record could work 
too..? But again, aside from the theoretical possibility, why would you 
want to set your PTR records to not match at least one of your A records?
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Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards,
Michael De Roover

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Re: [DoD Source -- ssshhhh Top Secret] Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required? Michael De Roover <isc@nixmagic.com> - 2020-07-09 17:20 +0200

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