CHAPTER 13

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Google Cloud DNS

The domain name system (DNS) is a global hierarchical distributed database that stores the mapping between a domain name and an IP address or other associated details such as the hostname. This mapping is called a DNS record, and associated records are stored in a DNS zone. From this perspective, the DNS zone can be seen as a container for DNS records that have the same suffix in a domain name. For example, db.cloudplatformbook.com and web.cloudplatformbook.com are two DNS records in the cloudplatformbook.com DNS Zone.

Google Cloud DNS is a globally distributed, low-latency, high-performance, resilient, authoritative ...

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