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DNS Records Cheat Sheet

This document provides an overview of common DNS record types including A, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SOA and SRV records. It explains that A records map IP addresses to host names, CNAME records provide domain name aliases, MX records identify email servers, NS records define name servers, PTR records enable reverse DNS lookups, SOA records identify the primary name server and properties of a domain, and SRV records define servers providing specific services.

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DNS Records Cheat Sheet

This document provides an overview of common DNS record types including A, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SOA and SRV records. It explains that A records map IP addresses to host names, CNAME records provide domain name aliases, MX records identify email servers, NS records define name servers, PTR records enable reverse DNS lookups, SOA records identify the primary name server and properties of a domain, and SRV records define servers providing specific services.

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CEH (DNS Records)

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A CNAME MX NS PTR SOA SRV

(Address) - Maps an IP address to a host name, and is used most often for DNS lookups (Canonical Name) - provides the domain name aliases w/in you zone (Mail Exchange) - Identifies the e-mail servers w/in your domain (Name Server) - defines the name servers w/in your namespace (Pointer) - Maps an IP address to a host name (providing for reverse DNS lookups). (Start of Authority) - Identifies the primary name server for the zone. Contains the host name of the server responsible for all DNS records w/in the namespace, as well as the basic properties of the domain. (service) defines the host name and port number of servers providing specific services, such as a Directory Service server

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