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domain name system - DNS A vs NS record



I'm trying to understand DNS a bit better, but I still don't get A and NS records completely.



As far as I understood, the A record tells which IP-address belongs to a (sub) domain, so far it was still clear to me. But as I understood, the NS record tells which nameserver points belongs to a (sub) domain, and that nameserver should tell which IP-address belongs to a (sub) domain. But that was already specified in the A record in the same DNS file. So can someone explain to me what the NS records and nameservers exactly do, because probably I understood something wrong.



edit: As I understand you correctly, a NS record tells you were to find the DNS server with the A record for a certain domain, and the A record tells you which ip-address belongs to a domain. But what is the use of putting an A and an NS record in the same DNS file? If there is already an A record for a certain domain, then why do you need to point to another DNS server, which would probably give you the same information?


Answer




Some examples out of the fictitious foo.com zone file



 ....... SOA record & lots more stuff .......
 foo.com.      IN        NS        ns1.bar.com.

 foo.com.      IN        A         192.168.100.1
 ....... More A/CNAME/AAAA/etc. records .......


A Record = "The host called foo.com lives at address 192.168.100.1"
NS Record = "If you want to know about hosts in the foo.com zone, ask the name server ns1.bar.com"



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