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What is a A record?
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A single record maintained by a dns server, and containing the ip address and name of one system in the domain.
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What i a Active Directory?
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A form of directory service used in networks with windows servers. It creates an organization of related computers that share one or more windows domains.
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What is a Authoritative DNS server?
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A single DNS server that has a list of all the host names on the domain, and thir corresponding IP addresses.
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What is Cached-lookup?
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A list kept by a DNS server of IP addresses it has already resolved, so it wont have to re-solve an FQDN it has already checked.
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What is Cache-only DNS server?
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A DNS server that does not have any forward lookup zones; it resolves names of sytems on the internet for the network, but is not resonsible for telling other DNS servers the names of any clients.
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What is a Canonical name(CNAME)?
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A less commom DNS record that acts as a host's alias.
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What is a Common internet file system(CIFS)?
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The protocal that netBIOS uses to share folders and printers. It is still common, even on Unix/Linux systems.
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What is a DNS root server?
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The highest in the ierarch of DNS servers running the internet.
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What is a DNS server tree?
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A hierachy of DNS domains and individual computer nams organized into a tree-like structure, the top of which is the root.
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What is the Domain Name Systems(DNS)?
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A TCP/IP name resolution system that resolves hostnames to IP addresses.
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What is a name Space?
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A naming convention that gives each device only one name tht must be unique. NetBios used a flat name space.
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What is a forward lookup zone?
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A special storage area's that hold the IP addresses and name of systems for a particular domain or domains.
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What is Fully Qualified Domain Name(FQDN)?
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The complete DNS name of a system, from its hostname to the top level domain name.
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What is Hierarchical name space?
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A naming scheme in which the fulll name of each object includes its postition within the hierachy. DNS uses a hierarchcal name space scheme for fully qualified domain names(FQDN).
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What is a HOSTS file?
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The predecessor to to DNS, a static text file that resides on a computer and is used to resolve DNS host names to IP addresses. The machine checks the HOSTS file before it sends a name resolution request to a DNS name server. The HOST fle has no extension, and can still be found on systems running TCP/IP.
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