2 a (address) – AirLive ES-6000 User Manual

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Host Name: dns1.airlive.com

IP Address: 61.11.11.11

Set up secondary host name server as:

Host Name: dns2.airlive.com

IP Address: 211.22.22.22

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Select Type

‹

It is divided into three types, namely Address (A), Canonical NAME (CNAME) and Mail

eXchanger

(MX).

11.2 A (Address)

This is used to map up IP addresses and domain names.

Ex.

Build up the mapping between domain names and IP addresses. (Table 11-1, Figure 11-2)

Domain Names

Type

IP Address

host1.airlive.com A

61.11.11.12

host2.airlive.com A

61.11.11.13

host2.airlive.com A 211.22.22.23

Table 11-1 Mapping table of domain name and IP address

Figure 11-2 Mapping table of domain name and IP address

A” represents IP address. Each domain name is assigned to a corresponding IP address. The table above

indicates that host2 is assigned to two IP addresses, so it lists out two entries corresponding to host2. Every

DNS inquiry might have one responding address or above and is sorted in address-sorting style or

round-robin style.

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