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5 : Supported Records and how they are processed

Chris Buijs edited this page Dec 14, 2017 · 11 revisions

Queries:

  • All record-types.
  • Matching is done against the NAME field (query name).
  • Returns redirected address (if used) for A, CNAME (pointing to fabricated A record) and ANY. REFUSED for any other type.

Responses:

  • Record-types: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR and SRV records
  • Matching is done against the DATA field (target name). It will take into consideration the domain-name only and skips any priority or weight values (as in MX and SRV records).
  • All other record-types are ignored and not processed (e.g. normal DNS resolution process will happen).
  • For now, only REFUSED is returned when matched. Redirection is in the making ...

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