The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed database, arranged hierarchically, containing records for domain names. The DNS system's main aim is to match a domain name to an IP Address. In order to fulfill this role,...

An SRV or Service Record is a category of data in the DNS specifying information on available services. When looking up for a service, you must first look up the SRV Record for the service to see which server actually handles it. Then it looks up...

NS Records identify the DNS servers responsible (authoritative) for a Zone. A Zone should contain one NS Record for each of its own DNS servers (primary and secondary). This mostly is used for Zone Transfer purposes (notify). These NS Records have...

CNAME Records are domain name aliases. Often computers on the Internet have multiple functions such as Web Server, FTP Server, Chat Server, etc.. To mask this, CNAME Records can be used to give a single computer multiple names (aliases)....

Each Zone contains a single SOA Record, which holds the following values for the Zone: Name of Primary DNS Server: The domain name of the Primary DNS server for the Zone. The Zone should contain a matching NS Record. The...