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Find DNS Records is s tool that will find out data about all the DNS records for a domain. You can check that DNS records that you have configured for a domain is correct or not. This tool will help you to verify the DNS records. The DNS records Include A, AAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SRV, SOA, TXT, CAA, DS, DNSKEY etc.
List Of Different Types of DNS Records
1. A record: This is known as address record which provides an IPv4 address to domain.
2. AAAA record: This record maps the hostname to 128 bits IPv6 address. Due to the shortage of IPv4, IPv6 was created. As IPv6 is four times larger than IPv4 that’s why it uses AAAA.
3. CNAME record: This is known as Canonical Name Record which creates an alias of one domain name.
4. MX record: This is known as Mail Exchange record which tells us that which mail exchange server are responsible for routing the email to correct destination.
5. NS record: This is known as Name server Records which is used to points name server which have authority to manage the DNS record of domain.
6. PTR record: This is known as Pointer records which points the IPv4 or IPv6 address to its machine’s hostname.
7. SRV record: This is known as service records which indicates the specific services which domain operates.
8. SOA record: This is known as Start of Authority records which provides essential information like serial number of DNS zone, email of domain administrator etc.
9. TXT record: This allows the website’s administrator to insert any arbitrary text in the DNS records.
10. CAA record: This is known as Certification Authority Authorization record. If there is no CAA record in you domain then any certificate authority can issue you a SSL certificate.
