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+[02] WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT DNS RECORD TYPES?
+     This is a pretty quick and basic description.  The most
+     important records are the A, MX and CNAME.  You can probably
+     figure out how the DNS database entry works.
+     SOA    Start Of Authority.  Is probably the most complicated
+            portion of the DNS database to understand.  SDF takes
+            care of this record for you.
+     A      Address record.  The IP address for a host or domain.
+     MX     Mail Exchanger.  The host who handles mail for your
+            domain/hosts.  There is a numeric value before the
+            MX host to specify preference (typically 75 for
+            a primary, and 100 for a secondary)
+     CNAME  Canonical Name - an equivilent host name.
+     A typical database (without the SOA) might look like this:
+     $ORIGIN mydomain.org.
+     foo	IN	A	10.0.0.1
+		IN	MX	75   foo.mydomain.org.
+		IN	MX	100  mail.anotherhost.org.
+     bar	IN	CNAME	foo.mydomain.org.
+     Notice that the "." at the end of text is of importance.
+     the $ORIGIN is a tag in the database, which tells the nameserver
+     that all information following needs to have 'mydomain.org.'
+     appended to the initial tag (id est, foo.mydomain.org. instead
+     of just 'foo').
+     In the above example, host 'foo' has an address of 10.0.0.1 and
+     its favourite mail exchanger is itself.  In the event that it
+     is unavailable, its second favourite mail exchanger is
+     'mail.anotherhost.org' which lives outside of this database.
+     Host 'bar' in basically just an equivilent name for 'foo' .. although
+     you could of just had another A and MX records for 'bar', this is
+     the most efficient and clean way to build your database.
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