Hi Andrew

From: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sullivan-dns-class-useless-01

>   Some RRTYPEs are defined in a class-dependent way.  For instance, the
>   A record (type 1) is defined in [RFC1035] to be for class IN only.
>   Perhaps unfortunately, the IANA registry for RRTYPEs (at
>   <http://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters/dns-
>   parameters.xml#dns-parameters-4>) does not include an indicator for
>   the class in which the RRTYPE is defined.

Added to that, the "A" record type is also found in some places with RR
TYPE=1, with the same name "A" for the CH class, where it has a
completely different RDATA format and meaning. It isn't listed on the
DNS parameters page, but it is implemented so by BIND and you can find a
description here:

http://victor.se/bjorn/its/chaos-dns.php

                Mukund

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