Designate Glossary¶

The following is a glossary of terms that may be used througout the Designate documentation and code.

Fully Qualified Domain Name¶

A domain name that includes all levels of the domain hierarchy, including the root domain (represented by a period at the end). Fully Qualified Domain Name is sometimes abreviated as FQDN. Example: www.example.com.

Record¶

The data (also known as the RDATA in RFC1034) part of a recordset. Recordsets may have one or more records. An example of a record for a recordset of type A would be an IP address, such as 192.0.2.1.

Recordset¶

A recordset represents one or more DNS records that share the same Name and Type. For example, a recordset named www.example.com., with a Type of A, may contain two records; 192.0.2.1 and 192.0.2.2.

Zone¶

A zone represents a namespace in DNS, for example the zone example.com. may contain a recordset for www.