What are domain name pointers and can they be used?

[callumacrae]

I couldn't think of a better place to put this, but it's regarding a VPS I will probably buy soon.

What are domain name pointers? All I've found so far is that mine is something like 88-108-26-***.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at the moment, and they're used as hostmask in IRC.

Can they be set on VPS' from x10hosting? I asked in a few places on the internet, they said it was out of my control and it was probably the ISPs thing.

Anyone know anything about this?

~Callum

 

[callumacrae]

I've been googling:

They're usually known as PTR records, and can only be set by the ISP. I'm assuming that this means it cannot be done on x10hosting then?

~Callum

 

[Skizzerz]

x10 can set PTR records for your VPS IPs if you open a support ticket in the client panel (for those that don't know, PTR records are also known as "reverse-DNS")

 

[masshuu]

If you set a rdns record, then thats probably what the irc servers going to use for your vhost

 

[callumacrae]

Nah, IRC uses the PTR record

Thanks for your help

~Callum