DNS - Forward DNS Lookup
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About
A forward DNS lookup is a dns lookup that translate a DNS name to an IP.
The inverse is called a reverse lookup
A forward DNS lookup is a query executed by a resolver that will lookup in order:
and return the first IP found.
Example
For example, the domain name www.example.com translates to the addresses 192.0.32.10 (IPv4) and 2620:0:2d0:200::10 (IPv6).