Duplicate A record name alert

[opennetadmin]

There are some situations where knowing that the new A record you are adding is using an existing name. Some times having multiple hosts that have the same name but different IPs added over time creates "duplicate" names. While adding multiple A records with the same name and different IP addresses is perfectly normal, its not desired to have same name on two different hosts (its usually used for service IPs and clusters etc)..

The thought is to create a JS alert that will just tell the user that there is another A record with that name. hopefully it wont be too annoying since the % of these types of legit records is low.

[tuXitbe]

In a dual stack IPV4/IPV6 world it is desireable to have the possibility to point 1 hostname to both an A and an AAAA record. This is not possible at the moment.

[mattpascoe]

@tuXitbe It should be possible to add multiple A/AAAA records with the same name and different IP addresses. By default when adding records the 'Create PTR' check box is checked. You would have to un check this box as there is likely already a PTR record. The duplicate PTR is likely the error that you received. Hope that helps.

[tuXitbe]

@mattpascoe I see my error now. Since i could not create the AAAA record because the interface did not exist, i tried creating a host with identical name and AAAA record. I found out now that i have to add an interface to the V4 host containing the V6 addres and now i can easily create the AAAA record with identical name. Sorry to have bothered you, fine peace of soft!