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DNS Glossary


The Men & Mice DNS glossary contains information and defintions essential for anyone working with DNS.

 

  • A Record
  • Alias
  • Ancestry
  • Authoritative
  • BIND
  • Caching
  • Canonical Name
  • CIDR
  • Class A Subnet
  • Class B Subnet
  • Class C Subnet
  • Classless Subnet Delegation
  • CNAME Record
  • Delegation
  • Dig
  • DNS Server
  • DNS Spoofing
  • Domain
  • Domain Name
  • Domain Name System
  • Domain Zone
  • Dynamic IP Address
  • Expire Field
  • Forward Domain
  • Forward Zone
  • Forwarding
  • Fully Qualified Domain Name
  • Fully Qualified Host Name
  • Glue Record
  • Hexadecimal
  • HINFO Record
  • Host
  • Hostmaster field
  • Hostname
  • IP Address
  • Iterative query
  • Label
  • Lame Delegation
  • Lame Server
  • LOC Record
  • Machine
  • Mail Relay
  • Master Server
  • Minimum Field
  • MX Record
  • Name Server
  • Negative Caching
  • Node
  • NS Record
  • NSlookup
  • Octet
  • Origin
  • Owner
  • Primary Field
  • Primary Server
  • PTR Record
  • Query
  • Record
  • Record Class
  • Recursive Query
  • Refresh Field
  • Resolver
  • Resource Record
  • Retry field
  • Reverse Domain
  • Reverse Record
  • Reverse Zone
  • Root Server
  • Root Zone
  • Round Robin Load Sharing
  • RP Record
  • Secondary Server
  • Serial Number Field
  • Server
  • SOA Record
  • SRV Record
  • Static IP Address
  • Subdomain
  • Subnet
  • Subnet Class
  • Top Level Domain
  • Tree
  • TTL
  • TXT Record
  • Unqualified Domain Name
  • Wildcard
  • WKS Record
  • Zone
  • Zone Transfer


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