DNS Message Exchanges

This section describes common DNS message exchanges for the following:

Resolving Names to Addresses

Resolving names to addresses, also known as forward name resolution, occurs when a DNS client or a DNS server sends a DNS server a DNS Name Query Request message containing an FQDN with instructions to return RRs of a specified type or all RRs. This message exchange consists of a DNS Name Query Request message and a DNS Name Query Response message.

An example of this message exchange is Capture 15-01, a Network Monitor trace that is included in the \Captures folder on the companion CD-ROM. ...

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