Network - DNS Lookup (Request|query)
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A DNS lookup is a request to a DNS server in order to translate a DNS name to an IP and vice versa.
Beware that not all DNS client are performing a lookup on the content of the host file as ping does.
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Forward
A forward lookup translate a DNS name to an IP. See DNS - Forward DNS Lookup
Reverse
A reverse lookup translate a an IP to a DNS name. See DNS - rDNS - Reverse DNS (lookup|resolution) - from IP to name