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Record Types

This document provides an overview of common DNS resource record types, including SOA (Start of Authority), NS (Name Server), A, PTR, CNAME, MX, and SRV. An SOA record contains information about the authoritative DNS server for a zone. An NS record specifies the authoritative name servers for a zone. An A record maps a domain name to an IP address, while a PTR record maps an IP address to a domain name. A CNAME creates an alias for a domain name. An MX record specifies email servers. An SRV record specifies servers for a particular service.

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Record Types

This document provides an overview of common DNS resource record types, including SOA (Start of Authority), NS (Name Server), A, PTR, CNAME, MX, and SRV. An SOA record contains information about the authoritative DNS server for a zone. An NS record specifies the authoritative name servers for a zone. An A record maps a domain name to an IP address, while a PTR record maps an IP address to a domain name. A CNAME creates an alias for a domain name. An MX record specifies email servers. An SRV record specifies servers for a particular service.

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Paul Hill | itFlee.

com

DNS servers hold different types of entries which are called resource records. These recourse records are used to
provide DNS based data about computers on a network. In this lecture, I am going to provide a general overview of the
most common types of resource records that you will encounter while working on DNS. The resource record types we
will cover are the SOA, NS, A, PTR, CNAME, MX, and SRV resource record types.

The first type is an SOA (Start of Authority) resource record.

Every zone contains an SOA resource record at the beginning of the zone. The SOA contains information about the DNS
server that has provided the data for that particular zone.

The next resource record is a NS (Name Server) record type. The NS record indicates the zones authoritative DNS
servers. Every zone must contain at least one NS record at the root of the zone.

An A resource record maps an FQDN (fully qualified domain name) to an IP address. An example of a FQDN would be
itfdc01.itflee.com.

A PTR (pointer) resource does the exact opposite of an A record by mapping an IP address to an FQDN.

A CNAME resource record creates an alias for a specified FQDN. For example, if you have the FQDN of itfdc01.itflee.com
but the servers name was changed to itfleedc01.itflee.com, you could create a CNAME resource record to point all traffic
headed to itfdc01.itflee.com to itfleedc01.itflee.com.

A MX resource record is used to specify the email servers for the zone. If you do not have a mail server (such as
Exchange 2010) then you will not use this type of entry.

An SRV resource record allows you to specify servers for a particular service or protocol. For example, if you were
running a web server on your domain, you could create an SRV resource record and specify the FQDN and port of the
server so it would be accessible to anyone who queried your DNS server.

Paul Hill | PaulH@itflee.com | itFlee.com

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