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Keywords: DNS aliases
The reverse of this process is to turn an IP address back into a host name. This is implemented using PTR [pointer] records in a reverse lookup domain. The IP address can then be used to lookup a host name. However, regardless of how many CNAME records were used to implement aliases for the host, the host's IP address only ever resolves back to a single name. I suppose that you could implement multiple PTR records, but that would only serve to cause confusion because you would not have any control over which one of the PTR records was used at any given time and this would mean that successive attempts at the reverse lookup could result in different host names being returned.
Article ID: W15175
File Created: 2002:09:05:13:50:20
Last Updated: 2002:09:05:13:50:20