Protocol
DNS
Domain Name System
Hierarchical name resolution with UDP/TCP queries and resource records (A/AAAA/CNAME/MX/TXT/…). Caching, EDNS, and DNSSEC affect both performance and security. Almost every internet protocol dependency starts with a DNS lookup.
Domains
Layers
Tags
namesrecordsresolvercache
Sources
- RFC 1035
- RFC 6891 (EDNS)
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