Best practices for coding new RR Types

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Hello

I am trying to implement logic for an experimental (Internet Draft) RR type and am curious if there is a common methodology to get the ball rolling. Glancing through the code it appears as if most of the magic is in sldns/rrdef.h and sldns/rrdef.c .

Any help/ tips to get ramped up quickly with the process and avoid pitfalls would be greatly appreciated. I am very new to the codebase (today) so any documents to limit silly questions are also appreciated.

Thanks,

John

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do you need specific processingthat is not like normal record serving?
Because if you just want your RRtype blob served, you can use a generic
record format with a private user number.

Paul

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From: Paul Wouters [mailto:paul@nohats.ca]

> I am trying to implement logic for an experimental (Internet Draft) RR
> type and am curious if there is a common methodology to get the ball
> rolling. Glancing through the code it appears as if most of the magic
> is in sldns/rrdef.h and sldns/rrdef.c .

do you need specific processingthat is not like normal record serving?
Because if you just want your RRtype blob served, you can use a generic
record format with a private user number.

Paul

Paul, Thanks for the quick response. This is very interesting to know.
We will need additional processing for the record in question so I will need
to dig deeper. I will look at the blob RR as a starting point, any other
helpful tips you can think of?

Thanks again,
John

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