PDNS also supports so called 'fancy' records. A Fancy Record is actually not a DNS record, but it is translated into one. Currently, two fancy records are implemented, but not very useful without additional unreleased software. For completeness, they are listed here. The software will become available later on and is part of the Express and PowerMail suite of programs.
These records imply extra database lookups which has a performance impact. Therefore fancy records are only queried for if they are enabled with the fancy-records command in pdns.conf.
This record denotes an email forward. A typical entry looks like this:
support@yourdomain.com MBOXFW you@yourcompany.com |
URL records work in much the same way, but for HTTP. A sample record:
yourdomain.com URL http://somewhere.else.com/yourdomain |