Embedded Domain Name Services (DNS) Overview
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Allegro’s RomDNS is a Domain Name Services (DNS) client that enables your embedded device to communicate with any Internet DNS server.
The RomDNS toolkit provides a Domain Name Services (DNS) client allowing embedded devices to perform lookups of a variety of DNS records. The following table summarizes the types of DNS queries supported.
|
Query Type |
Query Result |
|---|---|
|
kRdQuery_Addr |
Returns IP address |
|
kRdQuery_Ptr |
Returns Name |
|
kRdQuery_NS |
Returns Name Server |
|
kRdQuery_CNAME |
Returns Canonical Name |
|
kRdQuery_SOA |
Returns Start of Authority |
|
kRdQuery_HINFO |
Returns Host Information |
|
kRdQuery_MX |
Returns Mail Exchanger |
Used standalone or integrated with RomMailer, RomPOP or RomWebClient, RomDNS reduces design and implementation effort for your embedded networking application. Fully compliant with RFC 1034 and RFC 1035, your engineering team can use RomDNS to simplify configuration or provide server addresses.
