[bind10-dev] Help on how to add new Resource Record types in BIND

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:59:08 +0800,
Gao Kai <godrickk at gmail.com> wrote:

>        I'm a college student working on a project that needs DNS support 
> and we want to add some new RR types.
>        I tried googling with the keywords "BIND", "new Resource Record 
> types" and other related sayings. Most of the time what I found always 
> involves with how to add new 'records' but not about 'types'. I referred 
> to the implementation of other types in directory "lib/dns/rdata" and 
> I'm writing to ask if I should modify somewhere else to fit my types in 
> BIND. Thanks for your attention and best wishes!

First off, on which version of BIND are you asking?  As the list name
suggests, this list is for discussion of version 10 of BIND, while the
current production version is version 9 as known as BIND 9 (so, in
general, when someone just says "BIND", I suspect it's more likely to
mean BIND 9).  Both version 9 and 10 have the directory
"lib/dns/rdata", so I'm not sure about the version from this
information either.

If you mean BIND 9, I suggest you ask the question at bind-users:
https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

If you mean BIND 10, this is the right place but I'm not sure what you
mean by "types".  Do you mean just like a mapping of some mnemonic
of an RR type like "AAAA" and its numeric value (e.g. 28), or do you
mean something more than that, such as handling its RDATA?  If you
could be more specific about what you want to achieve, that would be
more helpful.

Thanks,

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.