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Why can't DNS create multiple A records with different names using the same IP?

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2023-10-13T03:23:16.7033333+00:00

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Example: There is an IP 192.168.9.9 which is both a www server (www.xyz.cn) and an ftp server (ftp.xyz.cn).

Question 1.

Why can't DNS create multiple A records with different names for the same IP? Instead, it needs to use CNAME to create them? As in the following two images.图片1

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Question 2.

After creating an ftp with CNAME, when I need to reverse query, how can I query the ftp domain name of 192.168.9.9?

Thanks for your help!
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  1. Anonymous
    2023-10-13T22:41:26.9133333+00:00

    You can't. A CName is an alias. When you do a DNS look up on a CName, you get back the hostname, not an ip address. You'll need to do 2 lookups to get the ip address. CName -> MachineName -> ip address. A single A record "MachineName" can have MULTIPLE CNames that point to it.

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