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Re:Show HN: GitHub-based DNS Hosting by X-Istence on Sunday June 22, 2014 @05:49PM (#7929348)
The record format is the same one that is used for DJBDNS, which by default does not support IPv6 addresses. There is a patch that adds IPv6 support, records start with 6 for IPv6 records.

If you want to create a record named:

  6www.whatever.com
You would put that into the file as:

  66www.whatever.com
Only the first character is used in the DJBDNS record format to specify what the rest of record type is.

Here is more information about the DJBDNS data format: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns-data.html

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Re:Show HN: GitHub-based DNS Hosting by vanilla on Sunday June 22, 2014 @06:48PM (#7929475)
it might not cause problems, but is not very concise

adding syntax to support new features always causes problems (python .. ^cough^)

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