Network+ Chapter 10A
- A record – A collection of Data on a Drive.
- Active Directory – Technology used to manage computers and other devices on a network.
- Authoritative DNS server – a nameserver (DNS Server) that holds the actual DNS records (A, CNAME, PTR, etc) for a particular domain/ address.
- Authoritative name server – Resolves DNS queries.
- Cached lookups – A tool used to find data in a data cache.
- Cache-only DNS server – Receives queries from clients, performs the queries against other name servers, caches the results, and returns those results to the client.
- CNAME – Canonical Name.
- DNS root server – Domain Name System Root Server.
- DNS server – Domain Name System Server.
- DNS tree – Domain Name System.
- DIG – Domain Information Grouper.
- DNS – Domain Name System.
- DDNS – Dynamic Domain Name System.
- Flat Name Space – A Name space without hierarchy.
- Forward Lookup Zone – A DNS zone in which hostname to IP address relations are stored.
- FQDN – Fully Qualified Domain Name.
- Hierarchical Name Space – A name Space that has a system to determine Hierarchy.
- Host Name – a simple string of alphanumeric characters.
- Hosts File – An operating system file that maps hostnames to IP addresses.
