12 HINFO 13, Host information MX 5 Host or domain mail exchanger AXFR 22 Request for zone transfer "ANY 255 Request for all records 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 L L t L L L L Name Type Class Time To Live (TTL) Resource Data Length Resource Data Figure 6 Resource Record Format (Source: Pro DNS and BIND by Zytrax/ Google Search) © Owner-name: The alias name for the host and target name in the zone file to Which the records belongs. © TTL: Time-to-Live specifies the period and how much time the RR can be cached. The time ranges from 1 to 2147483647 in seconds while the value zero indicate that the file should not be cached. © Class: This define the protocol family or an instance of protocol such as 16 bit value and the normal value protocol is IN which represents Internet Protocol. © Types: This identifies the RR type which determine the value of type-specific- data field, ‘Type-specific-data: Data content of each record attributed with the type and class values.