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A fully qualified domain name (FQDN), sometimes also called an absolute domain name, [1] is a domain name that specifies its exact location in the tree hierarchy of the Domain Name System (DNS). It specifies all domain levels, including the top-level domain and the root zone . [ 2 ]
Specify lists of address ranges, e.g. in CIDR format, for various address families. Experimental. SINK 40 — Defined by the Kitchen Sink Internet Draft, but never made it to RFC status GPOS 27 RFC 1712 A more limited early version of the LOC record UINFO 100 —
A hostname is a domain name that has at least one associated IP address. For example, the domain names www.example.com and example.com are also hostnames, whereas the com domain is not. However, other top-level domains, particularly country code top-level domains, may indeed have an IP address, and if so, they are also hostnames.
Google Public DNS is a Domain Name System (DNS) service offered to Internet users worldwide by Google.It functions as a recursive name server.Google Public DNS was announced on December 3, 2009, [1] in an effort described as "making the web faster and more secure."
A fully qualified domain address (FQDA) is a string forming an Internet e-mail address. It was defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force in RFC 3801 for the use in voice profiles for Internet mail, [1] but has been used on the Internet as early as 1988.
For example, to do a reverse lookup of the IP address 8.8.4.4 the PTR record for the domain name 4.4.8.8.in-addr.arpa would be looked up, and found to point to dns.google. If the A record for dns.google in turn pointed back to 8.8.4.4 then it would be said to be forward-confirmed .
A reverse DNS lookup is a query of the DNS for domain names when the IP address is known. Multiple domain names may be associated with an IP address. The DNS stores IP addresses in the form of domain names as specially formatted names in pointer (PTR) records within the infrastructure top-level domain arpa. For IPv4, the domain is in-addr.arpa.
If the domain name is completely specified, including a top-level domain of the Internet, then the hostname is said to be a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Hostnames that include DNS domains are often stored in the Domain Name System together with the IP addresses of the host they represent for the purpose of mapping the hostname to an ...