DNS Record Types

DNS Resource Record Types — records of the correspondence of the name and service information in the domain name system.
The most popular resource record types are: 
 

Type	Description
A	Address record, correspondence between name and IP address
AAAA	IPv6 Address
CNAME	Canonical name for an alias (one-level redirect)
DNAME	Domain alias
MX	The mail gateway address for the domain. It consists of two parts - priority (the larger the number, the lower the priority), and the host address. Critical to SMTP, the basis for Internet mail routing
SOA	An indication of the credibility of information, used to indicate a new zone
TXT	Record arbitrary binary data up to 255 bytes in size