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faq:vhost02 [2011/04/30 19:12] (current) – created georg
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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.
 +
 +          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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