An MX Record identifies the email server(s) responsible for a domain name. When sending an email to user@xyz.com, your email server must first look up the MX Record for xyz.com to see which email server actually handles email...

This Record is used to translate a domain name to an IP Address.

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...

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)....

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,...