Talk:NS record

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)


 * 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)