dns record type

[Chris Thompson]

On Oct 5 2005, Raghav S.N. wrote:

>hi ,
>i want to create a record type for internal use. can i use any value between
>0 and 0xFFFF? or
>is there any maximum and minimum values that can be assigned to dns record
>types? is there any restriction on assigning like these range of numbers can
>not be used for assigning values to new types?

You should probably rely on RFC 2929 section 3.1 here, and believe it when
it says

   0xFF00 - 0xFFFF - Private Use

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Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk