Host Information (HINFO) Host Information (HINFO) record. Indicates RFC-1700 reserved character string values for CPU and ...

Host Information (HINFO) Host Information (HINFO) record. Indicates RFC-1700 reserved character string values for CPU and operating system types for mapping to specific DNS host names. This information is used by application protocols such as FTP that can use special procedures when communicating between computers of the same CPU and OS type. (RFC 1035)