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What records do the various tinydns data lines generate?

May 1st, 2001 00:44
Brian Coogan, Jonathan De Boyne Pollard

Each line in the tinydns-data file ('data') may generate several 
different records depending on the type of the line (denoted by the 
first character, see the tinydns-data doco for more detail).  Jonathan 
de Boyne Pollard created this useful short summary of tinydns-data 
record types and the DNS records each type generates:
  Type    Creates these
  ------- -------------
  .       SOA, NS, A              
  &       NS, A                   
  @       MX, A                   
  =       PTR, A                  
  +       A
  '       TXT
  ^       PTR
  C       CNAME
  Z       SOA
  :       User-defined  
The djbdns documentation for tinydns-data does describe all of this in 
detail:
  http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns-data.html