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<p style="Normal"><c props="font-weight:bold; lang:en-US">MaraDNS' private RR space</c></p>
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<p style="Normal"><c props="font-weight:normal; lang:en-US">The DNS specification allows 65534 different resource record types; after DNS being in use for nearly 20 years, only 53 different resource record types have been formally assigned; one more (256) is in limited use by BIND.</c></p>
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<p style="Normal"><c props="font-weight:normal; lang:en-US">This in mind, I do not think it is unreasonable for MaraDNS to use the DNS space between 19712 (8859-1: M\0) and 19967 (8859-1: Mÿ) for experimental RRs.</c></p>
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