The Active Directory Forest prefix (gc._msdcs) A and AAAA record
and the RFC7208 exclusion lookup names (interior labels on _spf,
_spf_verify, and _spf_rate) for A records are automatically excluded
from check-names.
owner name indicates that it is a reverse lookup of a hostname (the
owner name ends in IN-ADDR.ARPA, IP6.ARPA, or IP6.INT).
+ Owner names of A and AAAA records starting with the Active
+ Directory Forest prefix labels ``gc._msdcs`` are excluded if the
+ remainder of the name meets the check-names rules.
+
+ Owner names of A records meeting the :rfc:`7208` rules for the
+ labels ``_spf``, ``_spf_verify`` and ``_spf_rate`` are also
+ excluded.
+
.. namedconf:statement:: check-dup-records
:tags: dnssec, query
:short: Checks primary zones for records that are treated as different by DNSSEC but are semantically equal in plain DNS.