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We have an application that queries reverse lookups on clients trying to access it in order to verify the client and its IP are legit and a part of the correct domain/acl.. So if the pointer record does not match, the client is rejected. I don't know if that is relevant in this case, but it provides an example.
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On 7/9/20 5:03 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:

but it still has nothing to do with your domain by definition, the PTR
could be anything

Of course it can be, they're completely separate name spaces. However
would it make any sense in practice to point it somewhere else entirely?
You'd probably be better off not setting it at all then. I'd argue that they're meant to match each other.

but how does that change anything in the simple fact that "Would the
lack of A records affect pointer records? Seems like it would" given
that the PTR zone is a dns zone like anything else
while it's smart (at least when you want to send mails) that your IP has
a sane PTR and that the name maps back to the IP the dns system couldn't
care less

My thoughts exactly. They can technically be different and the DNS
itself indeed couldn't care less (but applications checking for that
might).. but would it make sense to? I mean yeah I suppose that they can
exist without the other. Not uncommon for A records to be without PTR
records, and I guess that a PTR record without an A record could work
too..? But again, aside from the theoretical possibility, why would you
want to set your PTR records to not match at least one of your A records?
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