MX, NS, TXT and SRV Records


A full listing of all DNS Records can be found on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types


MX:

Mail exchange record

Maps a domain name to a list of message transfer agents for that domain


NS:

Name server record

Delegates a DNS zone to use the given authoritative name servers


TXT:

Text record

Originally for arbitrary human-readable text in a DNS record. Since the early 1990s, however, this record more often carries machine-readable data, such as specified by RFC 1464opportunistic encryptionSender Policy FrameworkDKIMDMARCDNS-SD, etc.


SRV:

Service locator

Generalized service location record, used for newer protocols instead of creating protocol-specific records such as MX.

 
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