Domain Name Dns Privacy

The zone file s records all point to us by default.

Domain name dns privacy. The domain name system dns is a distributed database that is mainly used to map human friendly domain names to ip addresses that can be used to deliver ip packets over the internet. Dns poisoning and dns spoofing are terms used to describe an attack on a dns resolver s cache for the purpose of redirecting a hostname to a different ip address than what is truthfully assigned to that hostname effectively redirecting where you intended to go. A dns name server is a server that stores the dns records for a domain.

The settings contained within the zone file only work if your domain s name servers are pointing to us if the name servers are pointing to another company then the domain would be using the other company s dns settings. When you register a domain or add an existing domain to your account a zone file set of dns records is created for that domain. Email is delivered based upon your domain name having a dns entry called an mail exchange mx record.

This is normally done in an effort to take you to a website that s full of malicious files or to perform a phishing attack for tricking you into accessing a similar looking website in order to steal your login credentials. A simplified model of how the dns operates is depicted in the following diagram. The most common types of records stored in the dns database are for start of authority soa ip addresses a and aaaa smtp mail exchangers mx name servers ns pointers for reverse dns lookups ptr and domain name aliases cname.