What are domain name pointers and can they be used?

callumacrae

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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? :D

~Callum
 

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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
 

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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")
 

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

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Nah, IRC uses the PTR record :)

Thanks for your help :D

~Callum
 
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