dns record type

[Stefan Puiu]

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Why does it have to be a new record type? Is it something that a TXT record
couldn't handle? What do you want to store?

The record type is stored in two bytes, so yes, the values are between 0 an=
d
0xFFFF, but some of them are already used for existing types. You can check
lib/dns/include/dns/enumtype.h (after compilation, because the file is
generated during the build) in the BIND source to see what it uses, for
example. However, I don't think there's any other way to obtain a guarantee
that it won't overlap with some future type, other than registering it.

On 10/5/05, Raghav S.N. <raghavsn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> hi ,
> i want to create a record type for internal use. can i use any value
> betwee=3D
> n
> 0 and 0xFFFF? or
> is there any maximum and minimum values that can be assigned to dns recor=
d
> types? is there any restriction on assigning like these range of numbers
> ca=3D
> n
> not be used for assigning values to new types?
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> Raghav.S.N
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