DNS

wikipedia:Domain Name System translates domain names to IP addresses. The most common types of records stored in the DNS database are for Start of Authority (SOA), IP addresses (A and AAAA), SMTP mail exchangers (MX), name servers (NS), pointers for reverse DNS lookups (PTR), and domain name aliases (CNAME).

A stands for Address AAAA are used for IPv6 addresses

Public DNS Servers

• Google: 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4
• Cloudflare: 1.1.1.1
• DigitalOcean Nameserver: ns1.digitalocean.com, ns2.digitalocean.com, and ns3.digitalocean.com

• Linux DNS
• Free domains: eu.org

DNS servers

• Bind
• dnsmasq

Cloud / Iac

• Amazon Route 53
• Terraform resource: cloudflare_record

Client DNS utilities

Windows

• ipconfig /all
• nslookup

Linux:

• systemd-resolve: systemd-resolve --status
• dig
• host
• nslookup
• drill

macOS:

• scutil --dns
• dscacheutil -q host -a name example.com
  • sudo dscacheutil -flushcache;sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder;
• dig
• nslookup
• networksetup -setdnsservers
• networksetup -setsearchdomains
• host

Activities

• Configure your DNS servers in Ubuntu. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-set-dns-nameservers-in-ubuntu-server-18-04/
• host -t ns DOMAIN_NAME.COM
• CKA v1.18: Know how to configure and use the cluster DNS

Related terms

• wikipedia:Pseudo-top-level domain
• nscd
• DNS recursion: recursion yes|no; in Bind
• Wildcard DNS records
• Resource records: MX, TXT, NS, AAAA, CNAME
• Namecheap: PremiumDNS service: DDoS protection at the DNS level
• Dynu DDNS
• Ethereum Node Records (ENR)
• Kubernetes ExternalDNS
• TSIG (transaction signature)
• hyphen
• Infoblox company

See also

• Bind, /etc/bind/named.conf, rndc [status | reload ], named-checkconf
• DNS, DNS files, /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/systemd/resolved.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf
• DNS: Linux DNS, IP, systemd-resolve, /etc/hosts, whois, Domain registrar, dig, host, nslookup, scutil --dns dnsmasq, bind, delv, .local, .internal, .onion, FQDN, TTL, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/systemd/resolved.conf, dscacheutil (macOS), hostname, hostnamectl, bind, resolvectl status, DNS sinkhole, Domain name server, LLMNR, Resource records:MX, TXT, NS, CAA, SSHFP, Apex, CNAME, Wildcard DNS records, Subdomain, /etc/nsswitch.conf, 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, CoreDNS, dnsPolicy:, Google Public DNS, DNS caches, Kubernetes ExternalDNS, DNS forwarding, IDNA2008, DNS-1035, Domain name registrars, Split-view DNS, Pi-hole, NextDNS