Definition: Forward lookups
Hopefully you’ll never need to have this explained to you, but a forward lookup is a DNS query that translates a hostname into an IP address. A forward lookup can return many different record types,...
Category: Definitions
Definition: Recursive and Iterative queries
There are two types of queries defined for DNS. Recursive and (somewhat predictably) non-recursive queries which are called iterative queries. An iterative query is a query which will return either the answer required, or...
Definition: ACL
An ACL is an Access Control List, which is to say a list of groups, users, networks, or “objects” which are allowed or denied depending on what it’s being used for. It’s a very common...
Definition: Rabbit Hole
A rabbit hole is a website or series of links which distracts the reader into infinite digression. The digression is a problem because it’s not exactly guaranteed that the reader will remember later what...