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Where can caching happen in the DNS hierarchy and how are queries forwarded?
For a hostname to resolve into its IP address, there are several DNS servers that may be queried. Assuming caching doesn't happen, it goes from whoever made the request (the client), the recursive DNS,...
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What is the difference between host name and sub-domain name?
We know that Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) consists of hostname.domain.TLD.
Is that hostname also called the subdomain name?
What's the hostname and what's the subdomain name?
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Is DNS a directory service or directory lookup service?
I really confuse these two terms, I've seen that DNS is NOT a directory service But while I was reading about it in some textbook it mentioned that DNS is a "Directory lookup service"
Can anyone ...
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