Adding new RR types?

[Danny Mayer]

Duncan Gauld wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As an intern working on a research project, I have to implement some
> new resource record types in BIND. I was wondering if there existed
> any developer FAQs or other documentation that might give guidance
> about such development tasks as this?
> 
> I've worked out how to add the basic RR type modules (in order that
> gen.c picks them up, etc.) but am trying to understand what further
> code (particularly rdata processing code) needs to be looked at in
> order to properly integrate the new types.
> 
> I understand that BIND developer documentation is deliberately sparse
> in order to discourage amateur hacking like this, so I'd be grateful
> for any pointers. I believe the project (link below) is heading
> towards RFC in the near future.
> 
> The RR types are described in the internet draft
> <http://ilnp.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/docs/id/draft-rja-ilnp-dns-01.txt>.
> More details on the project in general, if interested:
> <http://ilnp.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/>
> 
> Many thanks for any assistance,
> 
> Duncan Gauld.

I don't know all of the areas that have to be touched except you will
then have to have code that needs to understand and return these types
but the bigger question for you is whether or not you could just use SRV
records or are there other issues with using them?

Danny