ECSA v10: EC-Council Certified Security Analyst v10

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VerifiedOpen-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Methodology

Karen is a Network Engineer at ITSec, a reputed MNC located in Philadelphia, USA. She wants to retrieve DNS records from publicly available servers. She searched Google for the providers' DNS information and found these sites: http://www.dnsstuff.com and https://dnsquery.org.

Using these sites, she obtained the DNS-record information she wanted.

What information do DNS records contain?

Explanation

DNS resource records can contain IP address mappings and mail-exchange (MX) information that identifies mail servers. The IANA DNS resource-record registry defines record types including address records and MX records for mail exchange.

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