A technician is setting up DNS records on local servers for the company's cloud DNS to enable access by hostname. Which of the following records should be used?
A technician is setting up DNS records on local servers for the company's cloud DNS to enable access by hostname. Which of the following records should be used?
An A record, also known as an Address record, is used to map a hostname to an IP address. This is essential for enabling access by hostname as it allows the hostname to resolve to the correct IP address, thereby connecting users to the specified server. CNAME records, while useful for mapping one hostname to another, are not appropriate in this context where direct access by hostname is needed.
Cname should be the answer
Yeah, indeed.
"An A Record maps a hostname to one or more IP addresses, while the CNAME record maps a hostname to another hostname." Truth be told I still don't know the answer
An “A” record, or Address record, is used to map a hostname to an IP address. CNAME is for canonical name records (useful for aliasing), not accessing a server via the hostname.
a CNAME record is used instead of a DNS A record, as it can only point to a domain name. In the case of an A record, its purpose is to associate a domain or URL with its corresponding IP address. For example, to load mywebsite.com, you need to point to its IP address like 192.168. 10.1.
Valid responses, but I would go with c.
Sorry, forgot to vote* The technician needs to enable access by hostname. This can be accomplished by mapping the hostname to an ip address by using an A record. CNAME maps a hostname to an alias, which the technician has not been requested to do.
This is definitely A. The question is asking to connect to a server via the host name, instead of the IP address. So you would need to update the A record with the IP address mapping to the host name to allow users to connect via the host name. There's no way it's CNAME. This is used to map subdomains like mail.google.com to google.com which is not what the user is trying to do in this scenario.
C. CNAME To enable access by hostname and set up DNS records on local servers for the company's cloud DNS, the technician should use the CNAME (Canonical Name) record. A CNAME record is used to alias one domain name to another. It is often used when you want to map a hostname to another domain or when setting up aliases for specific services. Therefore, the correct choice in this scenario is C. CNAME.
the answer is A. Cname is mapping a hostname to a hostname
Pretty sure this is A.
The answer is A. An A record maps a IPv4 to a hostname whereas a CNAME maps a hostname to another hostname (alias).
Should be A
The A record (Option A) and the CNAME record (Option C) are typically used to enable access by hostname12. The A record, also known as the host address, points to an IP address1. For example, if your web server has the IP address 123.12.34.255, you would create an A record with that as the value to point your DNS to your web server1. The CNAME record, on the other hand, is used to point a domain or subdomain to another domain name2. It’s often used to ensure that multiple services, like www and mail, can be accessed from the same domain2. Please note that while other records like MX (Mail Exchange) and NS (Name Server) also play important roles in DNS, they are not typically used to enable access by hostname
A. The technician needs to enable access by hostname. Not map a hostname to another hostname.
Cname is an alias hostname for the same IP.
CNAME is used
cname points a hostname to another hostmane, here they just want to point an IP to a hostname so i would pick A