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2. List of DNS record types - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types

   Delegation name record: Alias for a name and all its subnames, unlike CNAME, which is an alias for only the exact name. Like a CNAME record, the DNS lookup will continue by retrying the lookup with the new name.

3. nslookup - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nslookup

   dig, a utility that interrogates DNS servers directly for troubleshooting and system administration purposes. host is a simple utility for performing Domain Name System lookups. List of DNS record types - possible types of records stored and queried within DNS; Root name server - top-level name servers providing top level domain name resolution ...

4. Wildcard DNS record - Wikipedia

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   A wildcard DNS record is a record in a DNS zone that will match requests for non-existent domain names. A wildcard DNS record is specified by using a * as the leftmost label (part) of a domain name, e.g. *.example.com. The exact rules for when a wildcard will match are specified in RFC 1034, but the rules are neither intuitive nor clearly ...

5. Domain Name System - Wikipedia

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   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 its database. The most common types of records stored in the DNS database are for start of authority ( SOA ), IP addresses ( A and AAAA ), SMTP mail exchangers (MX), name servers (NS), pointers for reverse DNS ...

6. Reverse DNS lookup - Wikipedia

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   For example, to do a reverse lookup of the IP address 8.8.4.4 the PTR record for the domain name 4.4.8.8.in-addr.arpa would be looked up, and found to point to dns.google. If the A record for dns.google in turn pointed back to 8.8.4.4 then it would be said to be forward-confirmed.

7. dig (command) - Wikipedia

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   BIND name server; Root name server – top-level name servers providing top level domain name resolution; List of DNS record types – possible types of records stored and queried within DNS; whois; host is a simple utility for performing Domain Name System lookups; nslookup, another utility that can be used to obtain similar information