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Old 12-31-2011, 03:12 AM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by leg4 View Post
How could we check this? To make sure this A record has been setup?
Do a reverse lookup of your IP, then a forward lookup of the hostname the previous lookup returned.

x.x.x.x -> 1234.somehost.com (reverse lookup)
1234.somehost.com -> x.x.x.x (forward lookup)

Check that both the IP and hostname are the same in both queries.
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