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doc: Add resolveNaptr and naptr rrtype docs
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Updates the dns module documentation to include documentation on
the resolveNaptr method, and also adds the option NAPTR to the
list of valid values for rrtype in dns.resolve(hostname[, rrtype],
callback).

PR-URL: #6586
Fixes: #6507
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <[email protected]>
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doug-wade authored and Myles Borins committed Jul 11, 2016
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* `'NS'` - name server records
* `'CNAME'` - canonical name records
* `'SOA'` - start of authority record
* `'NAPTR'` - name authority pointer record

The `callback` function has arguments `(err, addresses)`. When successful,
`addresses` will be an array. The type of each item in `addresses` is
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contain an array of objects containing both a `priority` and `exchange`
property (e.g. `[{priority: 10, exchange: 'mx.example.com'}, ...]`).

## dns.resolveNaptr(hostname, callback)

Uses the DNS protocol to resolve regular expression based records (`NAPTR`
records) for the `hostname`. The `callback` function has arguments
`(err, addresses)`. The `addresses` argument passed to the `callback` function
will contain an array of objects with the following properties:

* `flags`
* `service`
* `regexp`
* `replacement`
* `order`
* `preference`

For example:

```js
{
flags: 's',
service: 'SIP+D2U',
regexp: '',
replacement: '_sip._udp.example.com',
order: 30,
preference: 100
}
```

## dns.resolveNs(hostname, callback)

Uses the DNS protocol to resolve name server records (`NS` records) for the
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