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NAPTR record. A Name Authority Pointer ( NAPTR) is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System of the Internet. [1] [2] NAPTR records are most commonly used for applications in Internet telephony, for example, in the mapping of servers and user addresses in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). The combination of NAPTR records with ...
DNS record types could be created and used to register what port a webpage is on. For example: My webpage would have two DNS records. Record Type "A" host record, www.example.com = 127.0.0.1 Record Type "porthttp" port record, www.example.com = 80.
TSIG ( transaction signature) is a computer-networking protocol defined in RFC 2845. Primarily it enables the Domain Name System (DNS) to authenticate updates to a DNS database. It is most commonly used to update Dynamic DNS or a secondary/slave DNS server. TSIG uses shared secret keys and one-way hashing to provide a cryptographically secure ...
For a while a new record type (SPF, type 99) was registered and made available in common DNS software. Use of TXT records for SPF was intended as a transitional mechanism at the time. The experimental RFC, RFC 4408, section 3.1.1, suggested "an SPF-compliant domain name SHOULD have SPF records of both RR types".
LOC record. In the Domain Name System, a LOC record (experimental RFC 1876) is a means for expressing geographic location information for a domain name . It contains WGS84 Latitude, Longitude and Altitude ( ellipsoidal height) information together with host/ subnet physical size and location accuracy. This information can be queried by other ...
The URI record is expressed in a master file in the following format: _service._proto.name. TTL class URI priority weight target. where: the symbolic name of the desired service. the transport protocol of the desired service; this is usually either TCP or UDP. the domain name for which this record is valid, ending in a dot.
DNS zone transfer, also sometimes known by the inducing DNS query type AXFR, is a type of DNS transaction. It is one of the many mechanisms available for administrators to replicate DNS databases across a set of DNS servers . A zone transfer uses the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) for transport, [1] [2] and takes the form of a client ...
The NetBIOS Suffix, alternately called the NetBIOS End Character (endchar), is the 16th character of a NetBIOS name and indicates service type for the registered name. The number of record types is limited to 255; some commonly used values are: For unique names: 00: Workstation Service (workstation name) 03: Windows Messenger service