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2. Domain Name System - Wikipedia

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   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. For IPv6, the reverse lookup domain is ip6.arpa. The IP address is represented as a name in reverse-ordered octet representation for IPv4, and ...

3. nslookup - Wikipedia

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   nslookup (from name server lookup) is a network administration command-line tool for querying the Domain Name System (DNS) to obtain the mapping between domain name and IP address, or other DNS records.

4. Reverse DNS lookup - Wikipedia

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   In computer networks, a reverse DNS lookup or reverse DNS resolution ( rDNS) is the querying technique of the Domain Name System (DNS) to determine the domain name associated with an IP address – the reverse of the usual "forward" DNS lookup of an IP address from a domain name. [1] The process of reverse resolving of an IP address uses PTR ...

5. Domain name - Wikipedia

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   In general, a domain name identifies a network domain or an Internet Protocol (IP) resource, such as a personal computer used to access the Internet, or a server computer. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System (DNS). Any name registered in the DNS is a domain name.

6. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority - Wikipedia

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   Internet. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA) is a standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol –related symbols and Internet numbers. [1] [2]

7. Multicast DNS - Wikipedia

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   Multicast DNS. In computer networking, the multicast DNS ( mDNS) protocol resolves hostnames to IP addresses within small networks that do not include a local name server. It is a zero-configuration service, using essentially the same programming interfaces, packet formats and operating semantics as unicast Domain Name System (DNS).