A DNS zone is a specific portion of the DNS namespace in the Domain Name System (DNS), which a specific organization or administrator manages. A DNS zone...

DNS zone transfer, also sometimes known by the inducing DNS query type AXFR, is a type of DNS transaction. It is one of the many mechanisms available...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed name service that provides a naming system for computers, services, and other resources...

The DNS root zone is the top-level DNS zone in the hierarchical namespace of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. Before October 1, 2016, the...

A Domain Name System (DNS) zone file is a text file that describes a DNS zone. A DNS zone is a subset, often a single domain, of the hierarchical domain...

that created by DNS cache poisoning. All answers from DNSSEC protected zones are digitally signed. By checking the digital signature, a DNS resolver is able...

This list of DNS record types is an overview of resource records (RRs) permissible in zone files of the Domain Name System (DNS). It also contains pseudo-RRs...

A wildcard DNS record is a record in a DNS zone that will match requests for non-existent domain names. A wildcard DNS record is specified by using a...

authoritative servers ("Authoritative DNS over TLS" or "ADoT") and a related implementation between authoritative servers (Zone Transfer-over-TLS or "xfr-over-TLS")...

networking, split-horizon DNS (also known as split-view DNS, split-brain DNS, or split DNS) is the facility of a Domain Name System (DNS) implementation to provide...

server for the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. It directly answers requests for records in the root zone and answers other requests...

System (DNS) name server software. Each of these DNS servers is an independent implementation of the DNS protocols, capable of resolving DNS names for...

such mechanisms include DNS zone transfers and file transfer protocols. DNS provides a mechanism whereby the primary for a zone can notify all the known...

hierarchy of the Domain Name System (DNS). It specifies all domain levels, including the top-level domain and the root zone. A fully qualified domain name is...

machines run a DNS server, to publish DNS data, to service DNS lookup requests from DNS lookup clients, and to service DNS update requests from DNS update clients...

DNS is a Domain Name System (DNS) service offered to Internet users worldwide by Google. It functions as a recursive name server. Google Public DNS was...

(AM) The Zone, a fictional area in the 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker DNS zone, a portion of a computer network namespace Solaris Zones, a virtualization...

RFC 2826. The DNS root zone consists of pointers to the authoritative domain name servers for all top-level domains (TLDs). The root zone is hosted on...

directly support BIND zone files, its zone file format is similar and a converter to convert from BIND's zone file format is included. MaraDNS runs as an unprivileged...

the main DNS server roles, acting as an authoritative name server for DNS zones and as a recursive resolver in the network. As of 2015, it is the most...

can be anywhere in the DNS, whether local or on a remote server in a different DNS zone. For example, if there is a DNS zone as follows: NAME TYPE VALUE...

record in the Domain Name System (DNS) containing administrative information about the zone, especially regarding zone transfers. The SOA record format...

DNS spoofing, also referred to as DNS cache poisoning, is a form of computer security hacking in which corrupt Domain Name System data is introduced into...

represented in the DNS by two DNS records: an address record and a reverse mapping pointer record. For example, a host computer named derrick in zone example.com...

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver product from NLnet Labs. It is distributed free of charge in open-source form under the BSD...

all packet processing and DNS intelligence, while one or more backends deliver DNS records using arbitrary storage methods. Zone transfers and update notifications...

level domains not found in the official DNS root zone temporary unavailability of the ISP's name server Public DNS resolver operators often cite increased...

DNS management software is computer software that controls Domain Name System (DNS) server clusters. DNS data is typically deployed on multiple physical...

characters in its textual representation. Subdomains are defined by editing the DNS zone file pertaining to the parent domain. However, there is an ongoing debate...

Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and is in charge of maintaining the DNS root zone. Originally, the top-level domain space was organized into three main...