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Supported Record Types
The Lightning Wire Labs DNS Service supports a lot of different DNS record types ranging from the basic ones to advanced record types.
We support the following record types: A, AAAA, ALIAS, CAA, CNAME, DNAME, DS, HINFO, LOC, MX, NAPTR, NS, PTR, SPF, SRV, SSHFP, TLSA and TXT.
Basic Record Types
A & AAAA Records
A and AAAA records point to the IP address that is associated with a host.
MX Records
MX records will point to the hostname of the mail server that is responsible for receiving mail for a domain.
NS Records
NS records tell which name server is responsible for a domain.
CNAME Records
CNAME records reference to other records.
ALIAS Records
ALIAS records work similar to CNAME records, but allows other records to overwrite the alias.
TXT Records
TXT records just store plain text.