An RP record specifies the email address of the responsible person(s) for a domain or specific host. It acts as a public contact point for issues related to that DNS zone.
ℹ️ The Responsible Person field contains the DNS-encoded email address of the person responsible for the Hostname requested, then a space, then a hostname that should return a TXT record containing additional information about the responsible person. If there is no such TXT record, the second value should contain a dot (.).
Example: webmaster.example.com. contactinfo.example.com.
The form contains the following fields:
• Hostname: The name that this record describes. Wildcard values such as * or *.sub are supported, and this field can contain an FQDN or just a hostname. If you specify an FQDN, the name must end with a dot; if you specify just a hostname, it must not end with a dot. If you want email addresses of the form user@example.com, you must fill in example.com. in the Hostname field (or leave it empty); if you want email addresses of the form user@sub.example.com, you must fill in sub or sub.example.com. in the Hostname field.
Examples:
- foo
- foo.example.com.
- www
- example.com.
- You can also leave the field empty which has the same meaning as if you'd fill in example.com.
• Responsible Person: The Responsible Person field contains the DNS-encoded email address of the person responsible for the Hostname requested, then a space, then a hostname that should return a TXT record containing additional information about the responsible person. If there is no such TXT record, the second value should contain a dot (.).
Examples:
- webmaster.example.com. contactinfo.example.com. (This means the responsible person is webmaster@example.com, and there is a TXT record for the hostname contactinfo.example.com which contains additional information about webmaster@example.com. If no TXT record for contactinfo.example.com exists, create one.)
- webmaster.example.com. . (If no such TXT record exists or you don't want to create one, just fill in a dot for the hostname.)
• TTL: The time interval (in seconds) that this record may be cached before the source of the information should again be consulted. Zero values are interpreted to mean that the record can only be used for the transaction in progress, and should not be cached.
• Active: This defines whether this RP record is active or not.
