Re: Best practice for reverse DNS records

[Ken Connelly <Ken.Connelly () UNI EDU>]

Here, things with A records have PTR records, although a great many of
them are generic.

- ken

On 1/13/14, 3:22 PM, Lisciotti, Kevin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was curious as to what others do in regards to creating external PTR
> records. I personally believe in just adding PTR records for hosts
> that require them, such as a mail server/exchanger. For security
> reasons, I would think that having all of your hostnames and FQDN's
> tied to your external ip addresses would make it easy for attackers to
> target specific systems; while creating a nice little profile on the
> organization.
>
> Would you concur, or do you think this is a non-issue? How do you
> handle PTR records?
>
> Thanks,
>
> :: *Kevin Lisciotti*, Senior Systems Specialist, RHCE, RHCSA
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- Ken
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