On Tue, 2021-05-04 at 11:30 -0700, Jack Craig wrote:
i've been challenged finding these rules... Thx! is this record format spelled out somewhere, RFC??? perhaps
There probably is, but I would have learnt this from the BIND documentation years ago, and just kept pace with how BIND rewrites its own zone files (I have a DHCP server on my LAN, and zone files are updated by it). Be careful of helpful websites which have errors in them.
This side of thing (how the data is stored on your computer) will depend on what particular name server software you use.
How *they* serve it to the world would have its own set of rules.