authoritative server or nameserver

TLD server

Created: 2022-06-22
Tags: #permanent


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The nameserver for tryhackme.com 
kip.ns.cloudflare.com and uma.ns.cloudflare.com.
Multiple nameservers for a domain name exists to act as a backup in case one goes down.

Depending on the record type, the DNS record is then sent back to the Recursive DNS Server, where a local copy will be cached for future requests and then relayed back to the original client that made the request.

More Detailed Info:
Authoritative DNS server is responsible for storing the DNS records for a particular domain name and where any updates to your domain name DNS records would be made.

In short Authoritative DNS server holds all the records for a domain

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