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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/11/13 20:01, Gavin Panella wrote:
> On 11 November 2013 23:30, Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Gavin, I suspect we need to make our CNAMEs go away, or perhaps reverse
>> the current situation and make the maas name the A record and the
>> 1-2-3-4 the CNAME.  Whaddaya think?
> 
> Yeah, I'm slowing coming to a similar conclusion.
> 
> I'm not sure we need to keep the auto-generated names.
> 
> Or, I wonder if we can have two PTR records for the same IP address,
> one pointing to the auto name, the other to the custom name? And if
> that'll satisfy PostgreSQL and OpenSSH?
> 
> Or, if it's better to keep it simple: just have A records from custom
> names to IP addresses, and PTR records from IP addresses to custom
> names, and ignore all currently unused IP addresses?
> 

The latter crossed my mind too.  I can't remember why we decided to
write out all the unused IPs in the zone, but I do recall it led to us
limiting the size of the zone because of that.