The most commonly used record types are:

A (Host address)

AAAA (IPv6 host address)

CNAME (Canonical name for an alias)

MX (Mail eXchange)

NS (Name Server)

PTR (Pointer)

SOA (Start Of Authority)

SPF (Sender Policy Framework)

TXT (Descriptive text)

To setup one of these records, right-click a zone in the left list in the DNS Records window, and select the "New ...-record" from the pop-up menu.

 

The following are all less commonly used / experimental record types:

A6 (IPv6 prefix/suffix)

AFSDB (AFS Data Base location)

ATMA (Asynchronous Transfer Mode address)

DHCID (DHCP Information)

DNAME (Non-Terminal DNS Name Redirection)

HINFO (Host information)

ISDN (ISDN address)

LOC (Location information)

MB, MG, MINFO, MR (mailbox records)

NAPTR (Naming Authority Pointer)

NSAP (NSAP address)
RP (Responsible person)

RT (Route through)

SRV (location of service)

X25 (X.25 PSDN address)

To setup one of these records, right-click a zone in the left list in the DNS Records window, and select "Other new record" from the pop-up menu.

 

The records types used for DNSSEC are:

DNSKEY (DNSSEC public key)

DS (Delegation Signer)

NSEC (Next Secure)

NSEC3 (Next Secure v. 3)

NSEC3PARAM (NSEC3 Parameters)

RRSIG (RRset Signature)

To setup one of these records, use the DNSSEC Sign Zone function.