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IT Infrastructure Midterm IV
DNS records
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Computer Science
Undergraduate 2
03/01/2016

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Term
A
Definition
returns a 32 bit ipv4 address
Term
AAAA
Definition
maps a hostname to a 128 bit ipv6 address in the domain name system
Term
NS
Definition
delegates a dns zone to use the given authoritative name servers
Term
CNAME
Definition
the dns lookup will continue by retrying the lookup with the new name
Term
MX
Definition
maps a domain name to a list of message transfer agents for that domain
Term
SOA
Definition
specifies authoritative information about a dns zone
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TXT
Definition
oeiginally for arbitrary human readable text in a dns record this record has typically carried machine readable data since the early 90s
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