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What Does DNS Do and How Does It Work?
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Category: Hosting Basics | Tags: A Record, Anycast DNS, Authoritative Nameservers, CNAME, Common Questions, DNS, DNS Cache, DNS Files, DNS Records, DNS Resolution, DNS System, DNS Zone, DNS Zone File, Domain Name, Domain Name System, IP, MX, Nameserver, Nameservers, RDNS, Records, Recursion, SOA, SRV Record, TXT, Zone, Zone Editor, Zone File, Zones
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What is DNS?
DNS stands for Domain Name System. When you access a website, you use this service to locate the server where the domain's website is. When browsing the web, you usually type in a domain name like www.google.com into your browser. This is better than trying to remember an IP address linked to a Google server.
What DNS Lookups Are & How to Do a DNS Lookup
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What is Reverse DNS?
A reverse DNS lookup is a query in which a domain name connected with an IP address is returned. However, in a forward DNS lookup, an IP address is returned when the domain name is queried. The following is an example output of reverse DNS lookup.
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