Digging into DNS

Question 1

A command line tool used for querying the DNS to find the IP Addresses that corresponds to a host, or the domain name that corresponds to an IP Address.

Answer 1

nslookup

Question 2

nslookup retrieves the relevant address information directly from the __ __ of name servers

Answer 2

DNS cache

Question 3

Address entries in the DNS cache

Answer 3

Resource Records

Question 4

An organization responsible for assigning individual domain names to other organisations or individuals

Answer 4

Registrar

Question 5

The original way that numbered network addresses were correlated with words was through

Answer 5

Hosts files

Question 6

Hosts files contain

Answer 6

A network address followed by the host name it can be referred to as

Question 7

A technology that uses the internet for storing and managing data on remote servers, and then access data via the internet.

Answer 7

Cloud computing

Question 8

A piece of software that runs and manages virtual machines is known as a __

Answer 8

Hypervisor