Talk:NS record

Howdy. I notice this has (along with the pages for SOA, PTR and CNAME records) been unstubbed. If this really is all there is to say about these records, I was wondering if they might all be better lumped into a single article - that would provide a nice opportunity to discuss how they related to each other. However a few things that could flesh them out come to mind:

Where they live
What information and fields they contain
How they get created and by whom and why
How people locate and fetch them, and why
Information on the records provenance: history, designers, standards bodies
Associated properties such as entity IDs, TTLs and delegation
Innovative applications such as blackhole lists or dial-up pools
Examples of each record type perhaps ?

Not of course that I'm volunteering - I'm barely au fait with ping. But I'd love to learn about these things, please flesh the articles out! TB 17:41, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

A description of how the Domain Name System works should be in that article, and not divided into pieces or heavily duplicated in the pages for the individual records types. I made articles like MX record to have a way to refer to them from other articles like Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Gdr 10:08, 2004 May 20 (UTC)