DNS Entries Flashcards
1
Q
CNAME
A
Website redirection (conical name to an alias website name, i.e. mail.yahoo.com to yahoo.com)
2
Q
MX
A
Mail Exchange
3
Q
A
A
FQDN to IP Address (32-bit IPv4)
4
Q
AAAA
A
FQDN to IP address (128-bit IPv6)
5
Q
TXT
A
Anti-spam, domain ownership, some SSL certificate managers can use TXT records to verify domain ownership
6
Q
SPF
A
Used to give permission to a server to push emails (i.e. flyers, spam)
7
Q
SOA
A
Start of Authority - used to track the number of changes via a serial number
8
Q
PTR
A
Pointer record - provides the domain associated with an IP address
