Talk:NS record

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Howdy. I notice this has (along with the pages for SOA, PTR and CNAME records) been unstubbed. If this really is all there is to say about these records, I was wondering if they might all be better lumped into a single article - that would provide a nice opportunity to discuss how they related to each other. However a few things that could flesh them out come to mind:

  • Where they live
  • What information and fields they contain
  • How they get created and by whom and why
  • How people locate and fetch them, and why
  • Information on the records provenance: history, designers, standards bodies
  • Associated properties such as entity IDs, TTLs and delegation
  • Innovative applications such as blackhole lists or dial-up pools
  • Examples of each record type perhaps ?

Not of course that I'm volunteering - I'm barely au fait with ping. But I'd love to learn about these things, please flesh the articles out! TB 17:41, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

A description of how the Domain Name System works should be in that article, and not divided into pieces or heavily duplicated in the pages for the individual records types. I made articles like MX record to have a way to refer to them from other articles like Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Gdr 10:08, 2004 May 20 (UTC)