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DNS Records Explained: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, NS, and SRV Records in Modern Internet Infrastructure

In the previous article , we explored how DNS translates human-friendly domain names into machine-friendly IP addresses and how a request travels through recursive resolvers, root servers, TLD servers, and authoritative nameservers before finally reaching a destination. That journey answers how DNS works. This article answers a different question: What information is DNS actually returning? When…

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