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Concepts

Like regular DNS, Greenlight divides everything up into “Zones,” which represent (sub)domains.

Zones have Names inside them.

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Again, like regular DNS, Names have zero or more Resource Records inside them.

Greenlight currently supports two kinds of Resource Records:

For example, using a couple of Plain records:

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Functions are the foundation of Greenlight’s engine that allows for load balancing and other user-defined behavior.

Every Function “returns” some kind of data, much like in a programming language.