Also, dnslint shows no errors. dcdiag /a /c shows no DNS errors.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Michael Leone <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here's something odd. We had some DNS setting issues on a client, and
> the record expired and dropped out of DNS. We corrected the DNS
> settings, and I went to create a static record this time, rather than
> let it register (and possibly expire again in future).
>
> And I got an error creating the PTR. Going to the reverse zone, I
> already see a record there with the IP I am trying to add, but the
> record shows as a name of "(same as parent folder)", with a type of
> "Pointer (PTR)", and data says the name of the client we just just
> fixed.
>
> How this happened, I don't know.
>
> Ideally, I would just delete the record, and create a new, regular
> static PTR (so it had the correct name of .the IP address, rather than
> "(same as parent folder)". But I'm leery of deleting it, because of
> the type of record it says it is. I looked at the properties of the
> zone, and it does show the correct name servers; the rest of it looks
> OK, I think.
>
> Should I be able to delete this odd record, and then create a correct,
> static PTR?
