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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter
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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

by Glen D. Singh, Sean-Philip Oriyano
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate
302 pages
7h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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A technical area we should also focus on is DNS, or Domain Name System, which is responsible for resolving hostnames to IPs and IPs to hostnames. This service is extremely common to find running on a network, and is essentially a required service within most environments.

If you recall from your networking experience, DNS is a database that contains information about the relationships between IP addresses and corresponding hostnames. When a client wishes to obtain the IP address that goes with a given hostname (in a query known as a forward-lookup), a process goes on within DNS where the hostname is located in the database and the address returned. Each of these IP-to-hostname relationships in the database is known as a record. Not ...

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ISBN: 9781788995177