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March 17

Difference between DNS records and Resource records ?

Hi, is there any difference what so ever between DNS records and Resource records ? Thx, Ben-Yeudith (talk) 02:29, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Unless you are using a definition I haven't heard before, a Domain Name System (DNS) is a collection of resource records. So, saying "DNS record" is referring to a resource record in a DNS. 209.149.113.14 (talk) 12:22, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

More broadly, the term "Resource Record" could certainly refer to things outside of DNS, outside of networking entirely. I work in video games - and we call objects in our games (like a building or a vehicle) a "Resource" - so our databases include "Resource Records" that have nothing whatever to do with DNS or networking of any kind. SteveBaker (talk) 16:39, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Or more narrowly, Resource Records (sometimes referred to as DNS Resource Records or RR for short) are a SUBSET of all DNS Records. List_of_DNS_record_types#Resource_records. Usually the primary subset. Also, there are "dns records" which are not "resource records". The majority of DNS records ARE resource records, but not all, refer to the previous link. I would also slightly disagree with the 1st IP's reply in that DNS is not JUST the collection of resource records. That is certainly a part of DNS, but DNS is ALSO the entire infrastructure that supports the service, including the systems which assign and update the records and the systems that reply to the DNS queries. I actually work for a team which supports DNS (among other things) in an enterprise environment. Vespine (talk) 23:40, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]