This page lists all record types Bluella DNS supports, and how they are stored in backends. The list is mostly alphabetical but some types are grouped.
Warning: Host names and the MNAME of a SOA records are NEVER terminated with a '.' in Bluella DNS storage! If a trailing '.' is present it will inevitably cause problems, problems that may be hard to debug.
The A record contains an IP address. It is stored as a decimal dotted quad string, for example: '888.0.111.888'
.
The AAAA record contains an IPv6 address. An example: '2001:DB8:2000:bf0::1'
.
A specialised record type for the 'Andrew Filesystem'. Stored as: '#subtype hostname'
, where subtype is a number.
The ALIAS record provides a way to have CNAME-like behaviour on the zone apex. Add the ALIAS record to your zone apex. e.g.:
IN ALIAS myweb.paas-provider.com
When the authoritative server receives a query for the A-record for example.com, it will resolve the A record for myweb.paas-provider.com and serve an answer for example.com with that A record.
The "Certification Authority Authorization" record, specified in RFC 6844, is used to specify Certificate Authorities that may issue certificates for a domain.
Specialised record type for storing certificates, defined in RFC 2538.
The CDNSKEY (Child DNSKEY) type is supported.
The CDS (Child DS) type is supported.
The CNAME record specifies the canonical name of a record. It is stored plainly.
Like all other records, it is not terminated by a dot. A sample might be
'mail.yourdomain.com
'.
The DNSKEY DNSSEC record type is fully supported, as described in RFC 4034.
The DNAME record, as specified in RFC 6672 is supported.
The DS DNSSEC record type is fully supported, as described in RFC 4034.
Hardware Info record, used to specify CPU and operating system. Stored with a
single space separating these two, example: 'i386 Linux'
.
The KEY record is fully supported. For its syntax, see RFC 2535.
The LOC record is fully supported. For its syntax, see RFC 1876. A sample location (LOC) content would be: 51 56 0.123 N 5 54 0.000 E 4.00m 1.00m 10000.00m 10.00m
The MX record specifies a mail exchanger host for a domain. Each mail exchanger
also has a priority or preference. For example 10 mx.example.net
. In Bluella DNS manager, the 10
should go in the 'priority field'.
Naming Authority Pointer, RFC 2915. Stored as follows:
'100 50 "s" "z3950+I2L+I2C" "" _z3950._tcp.gatech.edu'.
The fields are: order, preference, flags, service, regex, replacement. Note that the replacement is not enclosed in quotes, and should not be. The replacement may be omitted, in which case it is empty. See also RFC 2916 for how to use NAPTR for ENUM (E.164) purposes.
Nameserver record. Specifies nameservers for a domain. Stored plainly:
ns1.bluella.net
, as always without a terminating dot.
The NSEC, NSEC3 and NSEC3PARAM DNSSEC record type are fully supported, as described in RFC 4034.
The OPENPGPKEY records, specified in RFC TBD, are used to bind OpenPGP certificates to email addresses.
Reverse pointer, used to specify the host name belonging to an IP or IPv6 address.
Name is stored plainly: www.bluella.in
. As always, no terminating dot.
Responsible Person record, as described in RFC 1183.
Stored with a single space between the mailbox name and the more-information pointer.
Example: admin.bluella.in admin.dnsadmin.bluella.in
, to indicate that
admin.bluella.in
is responsible and that more information about admin is
available by querying the TXT record of admin.dnsadmin.bluella.in.
The RRSIG DNSSEC record type is fully supported, as described in RFC 4034.
The Start of Authority record is one of the most complex available. It specifies a lot about a domain: the name of the master nameserver ('the primary'), the hostmaster and a set of numbers indicating how the data in this domain expires and how often it needs to be checked. Further more, it contains a serial number which should rise on each change of the domain.
The stored format is:
primary nameserver hostmaster serial refresh retry expire default_ttl
Besides the primary nameserver and the hostmaster, all fields are numerical. Bluella DNS has a set of default values:
ns1.bluella.net
dns@bluella.in
YYYYMMDDnn
10800 (3 hours)
3600 (1 hour)
604800 (1 week)
3600 (1 hour)
The fields have complicated and sometimes controversial meanings. The 'serial' field is special. If left at 0, the default, Bluella DNS manager will perform an internal list of the domain to determine highest change_date field of all records within the zone, and use that as the zone serial number. This means that the serial number is always raised when changes are made to the zone.
SPF records can be used to store Sender Policy Framework details (RFC 4408).
The SSHFP record type, used for storing Secure Shell (SSH) fingerprints, is
fully supported. A sample from RFC 4255 is:
2 1 123456789abcdef67890123456789abcdef67890
.
SRV records can be used to encode the location and port of services on a domain
name. When encoding, the priority field is used to encode the priority. For example,
_ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.conaxis.ch SRV 0 100 389 mars.conaxis.ch
would be encoded
with 0
in the priority field and 100 389 mars.conaxis.ch
in the content field.
The TKEY (RFC 2930) and TSIG records (RFC 2845), used for key-exchange and authenticated AXFRs, are supported.
The TLSA records, specified in RFC 6698, are used to bind SSL/TLS certificate to named hosts and ports.
The TXT field can be used to attach textual data to a domain. Text is stored
plainly, Bluella DNS understands content not enclosed in quotes. However, all quotes
characters ("
) in the TXT content must be preceded with a backslash (\
).:
"This \"is\" valid"
For a literal backslash in the TXT record, escape it:
"This is also \\ valid"
Unicode characters can be added in two ways, either by adding the character itself
or the escaped variant to the content field. e.g. "~"
is equal to "\195\167"
.
When a TXT record is longer than 255 characters/bytes (excluding possible enclosing quotes), Bluella DNS will cut up the content into 255 character/byte chunks for transmission to the client.
The URI record, specified in RFC 7553, is used to publish mappings from hostnames to URIs.
The following, rarely used or obsolete record types, are also supported: