Responsible person record

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if anybody could tell me how to create a associated TXT record which is needed for RP record?

I'm not aware from any samples available and I'm not sure what to type and how to go about doing this.

I am using the dns from win2k

Thanks in advanced to anybody who can help me out,

Rene

Here's an example zone transfer from my server. It includes the RP record and the text domain.

http://www.dollardns.net/cgi-bin/dn...=AXFR&submit=DS

Here's a type ANY lookup for the example.com root domain. It shows you an RP record. Click the link "contact.example.com" and you'll see just the TXT records under the text domain.

http://www.dollardns.net/cgi-bin/dn...e=ANY&submit=DS

And that's how it works. It is the most common usage of RP text domains - for contact information. Another example can be found at yahoo.com:

http://www.dollardns.net/cgi-bin/dn...e=ANY&submit=DS

Once again click the contact.yahoo.com link for contact info.

In the master file it looks something like this:

Hi SilentRage

thank you for your very quick reply. I did look at your pages.

In the mean while I keep trying to let it work, please dont forget that Iam using win2k and if I understands you are using Bind.

In my first zone D1.net I have admin.D1.net as administrator contact. You can set this in the wizard.
When I make a new zone 'D2.com' with domains then win dns uses the admin.D1.net as default. In the zone properties I see the possibilty to change this contact to a different one, of cource if exists. If not I can create a RP record inside my D2.com zone but here it goes wrong at least for my feelings.
I did create a MB record with the name 'admin' and with the host name mail.D2.com.
Then I create a RP record with 'parent domain = D2.com', 'Host or domain = same as parent domain', 'mailbox of RP = D2.com' selected by browsing to my new MB record. Ok, I can type the name by hand but I get back 'record format is corrupt' when i want to save. It looks like that RP uses the data from MB but not the name. But the MB ask for a host not a mailbox! The mailbox name I have to type and this is there. So here I am confused. Some idea about this?

BTW I did misread and the TXT is optional and not needed. My fault.

Not only is the TXT records optional, but the text domain is optional as well. The RFC 1183 which introduced the RP record states that the text domain may be denoted by a "." for the root domain to indicate that no text domain exists. Something like the below:

@ RP SilentRage.example.com. .

The MB record is completely useless. Don't bother creating one.

And Microsoft DNS Server stores the domain information in master formatted files. You can raw edit those files to change your zone information if the GUI is being a whore.

Thank you

I will change this by hand.
I hope to set up tommorow ( today ) a mail server. and check if it works.

But there should be a way of doing this by GUI. I need to read some more books.