A DS RR contains a hash of a child zone's KSK and can be used as a trust anchor in some security-aware resolvers and to create a secure delegation point for a signed subzone in DNS servers. As illustrated in Figure 22.1, the DS RR in the parent zone corpxyz.com contains a hash of the KSK of the child zone sales.corpxyz.com, which in turn has a DS record that contains a hash of the KSK of its child zone, nw.sales.corpxyz.com.
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The first four fields specify the owner name, TTL, class and RR type. The succeeding fields are as follows:
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