Creating a PTR Record

Scenarios

PTR records are used to prove credibility of IP addresses and domain names of email servers. To avoid being tracked, most spam senders use email servers whose IP addresses are dynamically allocated or not mapped to registered domain names. If you want to keep the spam out of your recipients' inbox, add a PTR record to map the email server IP address to a domain name. In this way, the email recipients can obtain the domain name by IP address and will know that the email server is trustworthy.

If you use an ECS as an email server, configure a PTR record to map the EIP of the ECS to the domain name.

PTR records take effect only after the name servers are configured. After you create a PTR record, we will contact CNNIC and APNIC to configure the name servers and allow Huawei Cloud DNS for domain name resolution. This process takes about 1 to 3 working days. In case of urgency, submit a service ticket. We will contact CNNIC and APNIC to speed up the process.

This following are operations for you to add a PTR record for a cloud resource, such as ECS.

Constraints

• You can only create PTR records for IP addresses with a 32-bit subnet mask.
• Only one PTR record can be created for an EIP.
• An EIP can be mapped to no more than 10 domain names.

Procedure

1. Go to the PTR Records page.
2. Click on the upper left and select the desired region and project.
3. Click Create PTR Record.
   Figure 1 Creating a PTR record
   
4. Configure the parameters based on Table 1.

   Table 1 Parameters for creating a PTR record

   Parameter	Description	Example Value
   EIP	EIP of another cloud resource, for example, ECS. You can select an EIP from the drop-down list.	XX.XX.XX.XX
   Domain Name	Domain name mapped to the EIP.	example.com
   TTL (s)	Cache duration of the PTR record, in seconds Default value: 300	300
   Tag	(Optional) Identifier of the PTR record. Each tag contains a key and a value. You can add up to 20 tags to a PTR record. For details about tag key and value requirements, see Table 2. NOTE: If you have configured tag policies for DNS, you need to add tags to your PTR records based on the tag policies. If you add a tag that does not comply with the tag policies, PTR records may fail to be created. Contact the administrator to learn more about tag policies.	example_key1 example_value1
   Description	(Optional) Supplementary information about the PTR record.	The description of the PTR record

   Table 2 Tag key and value requirements

   Parameter	Requirements	Example Value
   Key	Cannot be left blank. Must be unique for each resource. Can contain no more than 36 characters. Cannot start or end with a space nor contain special characters =*<>\,|/	example_key1
   Value	Cannot be left blank. Can contain no more than 43 characters. Cannot start or end with a space nor contain special characters =*<>\,|/	example_value1

5. Click OK.

   You can view the created PTR record on the PTR Records page.

   

   If a domain name is mapped to multiple EIPs, you must create a PTR record for each EIP.

6. In the DOS window of your local PC that has been connected to the Internet, check whether the PTR record takes effect.
   1. Press Win+R to open the Run dialog box, enter cmd, and press Enter.

   2. Run the following command in the DOS window:

      nslookup -qt=ptr [IP address]