[deployment-guide/comm-rel: 391/727] Extended the PTR resource record description.
Jaromir Hradilek
jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 19 12:57:36 UTC 2010
commit 8d2217e8854fd6fa3ab846125b672d3be74911df
Author: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile at redhat.com>
Date: Mon Aug 16 16:31:06 2010 +0200
Extended the PTR resource record description.
en-US/The_BIND_DNS_Server.xml | 6 +++++-
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/The_BIND_DNS_Server.xml b/en-US/The_BIND_DNS_Server.xml
index 4b74b35..c95fae2 100644
--- a/en-US/The_BIND_DNS_Server.xml
+++ b/en-US/The_BIND_DNS_Server.xml
@@ -1239,7 +1239,11 @@ IN NS dns2.example.com.</screen>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The <firstterm>Pointer</firstterm> record points to another part of the namespace.
+ The <firstterm>Pointer</firstterm> record points to another part of the namespace. It takes the following form:
+ </para>
+ <screen><replaceable>last-IP-digit</replaceable> IN PTR <replaceable>FQDN-of-system</replaceable></screen>
+ <para>
+ The <replaceable>last-IP-digit</replaceable> directive is the last number in an IP address, and the <replaceable>FQDN-of-system</replaceable> is a fully qualified domain name (FQDN).
</para>
<para>
<command>PTR</command> records are primarily used for reverse name resolution, as they point IP addresses back to a particular name. Refer to <xref linkend="s2-bind-configuration-zone-reverse" /> for more examples of <command>PTR</command> records in use.
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