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  7 misunderstandings of DNS resolution

DNS resolution is generally considered as providing mapping between domain name and IP address, for example www.google.com maps to 74.125.71.103. There are two important reasons for doing DNS resolution:IP address is hard to remember, while domain name is human friendlyVirtual host may access different contents according to the header of the host domain name(sub-domain name)Some webmasters may have some unreasonable requirements when doing DNS resolution. It mainly because they are not very clear about DNS. Here are some frequently seen misunderstandings about DNS resolution.1. Please resolve ...

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  Subdomain Configuration

Subdomain ConfigurationA subdomain configuration is very similar to a domain name configuration. The only difference is that the subdomain entry is tied to the corresponding domain name lookup. A request for the subdomain (e.g. http://content.websitegear.com) will be routed to a DNS server containing the DNS information for the parent domain (websitegear.com). Once the DNS record for the subdomain is resolved to a particular IP address, the request is sent to the web server listening on that IP address. The web server can now delegate the request to the particular website based on the subdomai...

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