Week 2: Tech Journal - ConnorEast/Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

# A deeper Look at DNS:

Different forms of dns records:

  1. A —> this shows the ip address associated with a specified hostname

  2. AAA —> This shows the ipv6 address of a domain.

  3. CNAME —> this points two domains (one alias) towards one another.

  4. NameServer (NS) —> this points to where a record would be found on a web browser.

  5. Mail Exchange (MX) —> This shows where emails should be routed too.

  6. Start of Authority (SOA) —> This stores admin information

  7. TXT —> This allows owners to store text as dns values

  8. PTR —> This allows for the reverse lookup of a domain

9.SRV —> This stores the ip and port number for specified devices.

  1. Cert —> This holds public keys.