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Explanation

Click Here for a film explaining the process of the DNS

An oft-used analogy to explain the Domain Name System is that it serves as the phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly computer hostnames into IP addresses. For example, the domain name www.example.com translates to the addresses 192.0.43.10 (IPv4) and 2001:500:88:200::10 (IPv6). Unlike a phone book, the DNS can be quickly updated, allowing a service's location on the network to change without affecting the end users, who continue to use the same host name. Users take advantage of this when they use meaningful Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), and e-mail addresses without having to know how the computer actually locates the services.The tools here are some of the most valuable OSINT tools you will use . Take time to get your head around DNS You will reap the rewards.

Here are a few tools to try out. As long as you dont ping or traceroute them at any time, it will be very difficult for the destination URL to see where they came from

Firstly, try The following are cmd entires on your computer. Try them to see what you get (safe)

Nslookup icann.org in cmd. This is basic search

Nslookup -q=mx icann.com in cmd this is mailservers

Nslookup -q=ns icann.com in cmd. This is nameserver

Nalookup -q=aaaa icann.com in cmd this is the ipv6

Nalookup -q=any icann.com in cmd this is all data

Heres a list of tools and pages that you may find useful

MyDNStools

DNS server maps ( europe)

DNS tools

Dns.robtex.com.

Whois icann.org