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  2. DNS sinkhole - Wikipedia

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    A DNS sinkhole, also known as a sinkhole server, Internet sinkhole, or Blackhole DNS [1] is a Domain Name System (DNS) server that has been configured to hand out non-routable addresses for a certain set of domain names. Computers that use the sinkhole fail to access the real site. [2]

  3. Zero-configuration networking - Wikipedia

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    The SRV record resolves to the domain name providing the instance, while the TXT can contain service-specific configuration parameters. A client can then resolve the A/AAAA record for the domain name and connect to the service. Service types are given on a first-come-first-serve basis.

  4. Name Service Switch - Wikipedia

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    The Name Service Switch (NSS) is an interface of glibc that connects a computer with a variety of sources of common configuration databases and name resolution mechanisms. [1] These sources include local operating system files (such as /etc/passwd , /etc/group , and /etc/hosts ), the Domain Name System (DNS), the Network Information Service ...

  5. Domain Name System - Wikipedia

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    The Domain Name System maintains the domain name hierarchy and provides translation services between it and the address spaces. Internet name servers and a communication protocol implement the Domain Name System. A DNS name server is a server that stores the DNS records for a domain; a DNS name server responds with answers to queries against ...

  6. Blackhole server - Wikipedia

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    The AS112 project is a group of volunteer name server operators joined in an autonomous system. They run anycasted instances of the name servers that answer reverse DNS lookups for private network and link-local addresses sent to the public Internet. These queries are ambiguous by their nature, and cannot be answered correctly.

  7. Dynamic DNS - Wikipedia

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    It connects to the DDNS provider's systems with a unique login name; the provider uses the name to link the discovered public IP address of the home network with a hostname in the domain name system. Depending on the provider, the hostname is registered within a domain owned by the provider, or within the customer's own domain name.

  8. dig (command) - Wikipedia

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    dig is a network administration command-line tool for querying the Domain Name System (DNS).. dig is useful for network troubleshooting and for educational purposes. [2] It can operate based on command line option and flag arguments, or in batch mode by reading requests from an operating system file.

  9. Domain name server - Wikipedia

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    A name server is a computer application that implements a network service for providing responses to queries against a directory service. It translates an often humanly meaningful, text-based identifier to a system-internal, often numeric identification or addressing component.