DNS Records
A Domain Name System (DNS) Record is a type of resource record in the DNS system that maps domain names to corresponding IP addresses. When you type a website URL into your web browser, your computer needs to know the IP address associated with that domain name in order to connect to the correct server and retrieve the website's content.
You can use DNS records to identify an organization's web applications, as many of these web applications require a DNS record that ties the web application to the organization's domain.
A few examples are:
Subdomains
Organizations may use subdomains to categorize and organize their web applications.
For example, mail.weelee.zip could point to their email server and login.weelee.zip could point to their website login portal.
CNAME Records
An organization using third-party services for their web applications may create CNAME records pointing to those services' domains.
For example, gitbook.weelee.zip could have a CNAME record pointing to gitbook.com and git.weelee.zip could have a CNAME record pointing to git.com.
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