DNS Resource Record Types — records of the correspondence of the name and service information in the domain name system.
The most popular resource record types are:
| Type | Description |
| A | Address record, correspondence between name and IP address |
| AAAA | IPv6 Address |
| CNAME | Canonical name for an alias (one-level redirect) |
| DNAME | Domain alias |
| MX | The mail gateway address for the domain. It consists of two parts - priority (the larger the number, the lower the priority), and the host address. Critical to SMTP, the basis for Internet mail routing |
| SOA | An indication of the credibility of information, used to indicate a new zone |
| TXT | Record arbitrary binary data up to 255 bytes in size |
