<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Aaron Wigley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaron.wigley@rea-group.com" target="_blank">aaron.wigley@rea-group.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">RFC 1912, under "2.1 Inconsistent, Missing, or Bad Data: Make sure your<br>
PTR and A records match.<br>
For every IP address, there should be a matching PTR record in the<br>
in-addr.arpa domain."<br>
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So, if there is an A RR for <a href="http://mail.mycompany.com" target="_blank">mail.mycompany.com</a>, there should be a PTR RR<br>
pointing back to it. This is commonly used for email spam detection<br>
(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_techniques#PTR.2Freverse_DNS_check" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_techniques#PTR.2Freverse_DNS_check</a><br>
s)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No! That is NOT what it says!!</div><div><br></div><div>It says that for every IP address there should be a PTR. It does not say that for every A record there should be a PTR.</div><div><br></div><div>You should be able to go IP ---> Hostname (via PTR record) -> same IP. (via A record)</div><div><br></div><div>Having multiple PTR records for a single IP address is completely legal, but has caused many problems over the years, especially with email/anti-spam.</div><div><br></div><div> Scott</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>