Tag: Reverse Lookup

What DNS Lookups Are & How to Do a DNS Lookup

Posted on January 24, 2023 by Sapta Upendran | Updated: March 20, 2023

Category: Tutorials | Tags: Anycast DNS, Dig, DNS, DNS Cache, DNS Files, DNS Records, DNS Resolution, DNS System, DNS Zone, DNS Zone File, Domain Name, IP Address, RDNS, Records, Reverse DNS, Reverse 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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How to Update Reverse DNS in Manage

Posted on May 28, 2020 by David Singer | Updated: June 20, 2022

Category: Billing + Manage | Tags: A Record, cPanel, dkim, DNS, DNS Cleanup, DNS Records, DNS Zone, DNS Zone File, Domain Forwarding, Hostname, Manage, Reverse DNS, Reverse Lookup, spf, Time To Live, TTL, WHM

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If you have a Storm VPS or a Liquid Web Dedicated server-based account and you want to update or modify the reverse DNS of your IP addresses, you can do so easily using your Manage account.

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