Sample DNS Records

If we use a DNS lookup tool to query the DNS server for the network in our example (for all information, in verbose mode), you would see entries like the following:

domain.com. IN MX 50 cecil.domain.com.

IN MX 10 mail.domain.com

cecil.domain.com. IN A 156.21.50.100

mail.domain.com. IN A 156.21.50.5

5.50.21.156.in-addr.arpa.,type = PTR

host = mail.domain.com

5.100.21.156.in-addr.arpa.,type = PTR

host = cecil.domain.com