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How to Perform a Reverse DNS Lookup

Posted on August 12, 2020 by Alex Gorzen | Updated: March 5, 2021

Category: Tutorials | Tags: Anycast, Anycast DNS, Dig, DNS, DNS Cache, DNS Files, DNS Records, DNS Resolution, DNS System, DNS Zone, DNS Zone File, Domain Name, IP, IP Address, RDNS, Records, Reverse DNS, Reverse Lookup, Zones

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What Is Reverse DNS?

The purpose of DNS is typically used to resolve a domain name to an IP address. This act is known as a forward resolution and is performed every time you visit a site on the internet. Reverse DNS (or rDNS), as its name implies, is a method of resolving an IP address back to a domain name.

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