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- From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)
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- Subject: Re: What's a TXT NS record mean?
- Message-ID: <VIXIE.93Jan10210945@cognition.pa.dec.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 05:09:45 GMT
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- Organization: DEC Network Software Lab
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- In-reply-to: mbl900@anusf.anu.edu.au's message of 11 Jan 1993 02:24:24 GMT
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- A TXT RR is unformatted text, subject to interpretation by the client
- (if by anything). They are used by some early versions of Hesiod, which
- is an MIT package that puts /etc/passwd, /etc/group, et al into the DNS.
- They have been used at odd times by others as continuations of HINFO or
- for client-layer implementations of what later turned into RP or MA. The
- particular thing you are looking at seems to be a Lotus Notes datum of
- some kind.
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- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab
- Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist;
- <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find
- <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me
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