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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:14:40 -0500
To: "Sheh, Peter" <peter.sheh@hp.com>
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Subject: Re: DNS question ???
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On Mar 4, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Sheh, Peter wrote:
[ ...crossposting trimmed... ]
> Hope someone can help me with this question:
>      "What does DNS do when the same hostname is reported from multiple
> systems with different IP addresses? "

The DNS returns the same hostname for each of the IPs which have a PTR 
record listing that hostname.

-- 
-Chuck