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Supported Resource Records

Mohamed Samy edited this page Feb 22, 2020 · 4 revisions

Introduction

This is a list of all Record Types aka Resource Records (RRs) which are permissible in the Zone Files. It also contains pseudo-RRs.

SecureDNS aims to support All Resource Records regardless of being deprecated or not. Accordingly, this table shows the up-to-date status of supported RRs in the latest master branch.

Records

Code Type Supported Description
1 A Yes IPv4 Address
2 NS Yes Authoritative Name Server
3 MD Yes Mail Destination
4 MF Yes Mail Forwarder
5 CNAME Yes Canonical Name for An Alias
6 SOA Yes Marks The Start of A Zone of Authority
7 MB Yes Mailbox Domain
8 MG Yes Mail Group Member
9 MR Yes Mail Rename Domain Name
10 NULL Yes RFC 1035
11 WKS Yes A Well Known Service Description
12 PTR Yes Pointer Record
13 HINFO Yes Host Information Resource Record
15 MX Yes Mail Exchange
16 TXT Yes Text Record
17 RP No Responsible Person
18 AFSDB No AFS Database Record
19 X25 No Public Switched Data Network (PSDN) Address Number
20 ISDN No Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Telephone Number
21 RT No Route Through
22 NSAP No Network Service Access Point (NSAP) Address
23 NSAP_PTR No Network Service Access Point (NSAP) Pointer
24 SIG No Signature Record
25 Key No Key Record
26 PX No MIXER Conformant Global Address Mapping
27 GPOS No Geographical Position
28 AAAA Yes IPv6 Address
29 LOC Yes Location Record
30 NXT No RFC 3755
31 EID No Endpoint Identifier
32 NIMLOC No Nimrod Locator
33 SRV Yes Service Locator
34 ATMA No Asynchronous Transfer Mode Address
35 NAPTR Yes Naming Authority Pointer
36 KX No Key Exchanger
37 CERT No Certificate Record
38 A6 No Service Locator
39 DNAME No Non-Terminal DNS Name Redirection
40 SINK No Kitchen Sink
41 OPT Yes Option
42 APL No Address Prefix List
43 DS No Delegation Signer
44 SSHFP No SSH Public Key Fingerprint
45 IPSECKEY No IPsec Key
46 RRSIG Yes DNSSEC Signature
47 NSEC Yes Next Secure Record
48 DNSKEY Yes DNS Key
49 DHCID No DHCP Identifier
50 NSEC3 No Next Secure Record Version 3
51 NSEC3PARAM No NSEC3 Parameters
52 TLSA No TLSA Certificate Association
53 SMIMEA No S/MIME Certificate Association
55 HIP No Host Identity Protocol
56 NINFO Yes Host Information
57 RKEY No N/A
59 CDS No Child DS
60 CDNSKEY No N/A
61 OPENPGPKEY No OpenPGP Public Key
99 SPF No N/A
100 UINFO No N/A
101 UID No N/A
102 GID No N/A
103 UNSPEC No N/A
249 TKEY No Transaction Key
250 TSIG No Transaction Signature
251 IXFR No Incremental Zone Transfer
252 AXFR No Authoritative Zone Transfer
253 MAILB No N/A
254 MAILA No N/A
255 ANY No All Cached Records
256 URI No Uniform Resource Identifier
257 CAA No Certification Authority Authorization
258 AVC No Application Visibility and Control
259 DOA No Digital Object Architecture
260 AMTRELAY No Automatic Multicast Tunneling Relay
32768 TA No DNSSEC Trust Authorities
32769 DLV No DNSSEC Lookaside Validation