Supported Resource Records

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