about $GENERATE Directive

[Chris Thompson]

On Apr 21 2009, Peter Laws wrote:

>刘强 wrote:
>> hi,
>>   I want to know if the $GENERATE Directive  support type NAPTR.
>>   You know,type NAPTR is used to ENUM dns. There are large amount of 
>> NAPTR resource records in ENUM dns;and the NAPTR resource records are 
>> very similar.It is great if the $GENERATE Directive  support type NAPTR!!!
>
>As far as I know, $GENERATE supports only A, PTR, CNAME.

>From the ARM:

[...]
 type  At present the only supported types are PTR, CNAME, DNAME, A, AAAA and NS.
 rhs   rhs is a domain name. It is processed similarly to lhs. 

Of course, that's somewhat inconsistent: since when has the rdata part
of an A or AAAA record been a "domain name"?

The real restriction seems to be that the rdata consists of a single
lexical item.

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Chris Thompson
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