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What is the authoritative source for an address lookup?

  • A. a recursive DNS search
  • B. the operating system cache
  • C. the ISP local cache
  • D. the browser cache
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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️

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sasquatchshrimp
Highly Voted 2 years, 3 months ago
In DNS, "authoritative" basically means, who can be trusted to own and know the dns entries for the specified item. In this item, its asking for an authoritative source, which has to be a server. DNS entries that are cached can be wrong, old/outdated. So Caches are ruled out. Now, this is a terrible question, but a basically, a recursive dns query is a packet that goes out to the big work dns networks and "walks the tree" to find an authoritative dns server for the website you are looking for. https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-recursive-dns/
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sasquatchshrimp
2 years, 3 months ago
world, not work
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Most Recent 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: A
A is correct
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g_mindset
2 years, 2 months ago
Selected Answer: A
A it is!
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Nebulise
2 years, 10 months ago
Helpful article explaining why answer is A: https://umbrella.cisco.com/blog/what-is-the-difference-between-authoritative-and-recursive-dns-nameservers
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bootloader_jack
3 years, 2 months ago
Is recursive search an authoritative source?
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3 years, 1 month ago
that's tricky, i guess the key is in the word source. The other answer are cached, so they will come from a first DNS lookup and that is the Source.
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kmb192006
3 years, 1 month ago
B,C,D are CACHE from the authoritative server when happens. ISP (DNS server) runs recursive search (root server -> TLD server -> authoritative server) to get correct name resolution and cache the result. Browser requests name solution from ISP and cache the result
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