DNS Record Explainer
Explain common DNS record types and inspect a pasted single-line DNS record locally.
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Explanation
How it works
Choose a common DNS record type or paste one single-line presentation-format record. The parser recognises an explicit owner, an optional decimal TTL and an optional class (IN/CS/CH/HS or RFC 3597 `CLASS####`) in either order, the type (a mnemonic or RFC 3597 `TYPE####` within 0–65535), and RDATA. It preserves quoted character strings and comments. It does not resolve DNS, validate RDATA, interpret zone directives, expand an omitted owner, or parse parenthesized multiline BIND master files. Unknown types are shown as unknown rather than assigned a meaning.