To add a PTR record in the GoDaddy DNS Manager, you need to do the following: In the Zone Field Editor go down to the TXT(text) Zone Click Add SPF Record A window will open with 4 tabs (Inbound, Outbound, The well hidden ‘PTR’ and Outsourced) Go to the PTR tab Check Include PTR and … Read more
Reverse DNS can only really have one name — if you list more than one, DNS will just round-robin between them. So you just have to pick one “official” name for the server and always use that. All the other domains are, in essence, just aliases to the original. Most services don’t care what the … Read more
The solution is checking Use this connection’s DNS suffix in DNS registration in the TCP/IP settings of the network interface: As much as it may appear strange, this is the only solution to ensure Windows will register both the A and the PTR records for a DHCP network connection; otherwise, it will only register the … Read more
If you have Unix or Linux, you can do this by typing this on a command prompt: dig -x xx.yy.zz.aa You’ll get an answer with your authority of aa.zz.yy.xx.in-addr.arpa and server resolving to this address. In Windows you can do nslookup xx.yy.zz.aa. You can also check online at www.intodns.com and input your domain… It will … Read more
The PTR record for a reverse name (eg 7.2.0.192.in-addr.arpa) is expected to identify the canonical name that is associated with that IP address. Both the gateway pointers at network nodes and the normal host pointers at full address nodes use the PTR RR to point back to the primary domain names of the corresponding hosts. … Read more