What’s the difference between forward lookup and reverse lookup in DNS?

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What’s the difference between forward lookup and reverse
lookup in DNS?

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What’s the difference between forward lookup and reverse lookup in DNS?..

Answer / sathish

forward lookup zone: It will resolve domain name to ip
address

Reverse zone: It will resolve ip address to domain name

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What’s the difference between forward lookup and reverse lookup in DNS?..

Answer / abid shaikh

Forward Zone : It translate the host name into IP address.

Revers zone :It Translate the IP address into host name.

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What’s the difference between forward lookup and reverse lookup in DNS?..

Answer / mahesh

forwar lookup assig for dns name or domain name

ex:wipro.com

reverse lookup is assign for network id

ex 192.1.1.0

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What’s the difference between forward lookup and reverse lookup in DNS?..

Answer / krushna

Forward lookup zone is used to resolve hostname to ip
resolution.eg when we type googl.com in webbrowser, it will
search the same in dns server and get ip for gogle.com then
it will conncect to google.com.

Reverse lookupzone is used to resolve from ip address to
hostname.Just reverse of forwardlookup zone.

thanks

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What’s the difference between forward lookup and reverse lookup in DNS?..

Answer / chandra has sharma

1. forwar lookup assig for dns name or domain name

ex:wipro.com

reverse lookup is assign for network id

ex 192.1.1.0

2. Forward lookup zone is used to resolve hostname to ip
resolution.eg when we type googl.com in webbrowser, it will
search the same in dns server and get ip for gogle.com then
it will conncect to google.com.

Reverse lookupzone is used to resolve from ip address to
hostname.Just reverse of forwardlookup zone.

thanks

3. Forward Zone : It translate the host name into IP
address.

Revers zone :It Translate the IP address into host name.

4. forward lookup zone: It will resolve domain name to ip
address

Reverse zone: It will resolve ip address to domain name

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What’s the difference between forward lookup and reverse lookup in DNS?..

Answer / gopi krishna

forward look up zone: It will resolve domain name to ip
address

Reverse zone: It will resolve ip address to domain name

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What’s the difference between forward lookup and reverse lookup in DNS?..

Answer / mr x

Forware Lookup Zone Resolve host name to ip address .

Reverse Lookup Zone means ip address host name that is ip
address to dns name

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What’s the difference between forward lookup and reverse lookup in DNS?..

Answer / saurabh gupta

forwar lookup assig for dns name or domain name

ex:wipro.com

reverse lookup is assign for network id

ex 192.1.1.0

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What’s the difference between forward lookup and reverse lookup in DNS?..

Answer / mohammed aslam

please send more question and answers related networking

Thank you sir

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What’s the difference between forward lookup and reverse lookup in DNS?..

Answer / manoj

forward lookup zone: It will resolve domain name to ip
address.
Ex. google.com to 10.132.10.32

Reverse zone: It will resolve ip address to domain name.

Ex. 10.132.10.32 to google.com

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4 Yes

0 No