January 2015
Intermediate to advanced
230 pages
5h 4m
English
DNS is all about records. It maintains a record name to respective data-type mapping. Following are the frequently used resource record types in DNS:
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Record Type |
Record Name |
Description |
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Address record |
Used for mapping a name to IPv4 address. |
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Alias record |
Used for mapping an alias to hostname. |
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Name Server record |
Gives details about name servers for a given domain. |
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Pointer (or Reverse) record |
Maps IP address to a hostname. |
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State Of Authority |
This contains administrative information about a domain hosted by the zone. Details like who owns it, email ID, refresh interval, retry interval, etc. related to the zone. |
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Mail Exchange record |
This gives the list ... |
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