30th November 2015 - 17 minutes read time
DNS records, as many of you will already know, are commonly used to translate a human readable address into an IP address. This means that instead of visiting a website by typing in it's IP address you can just type in the easy to remember DNS address. I won't talk too much about how DNS records work here, but if you want to know more then you can read the awesome and easy to understand how DNS works commic.
In this post I will be looking at different tools that can be used to find out more about a DNS record, and what kinds of results they return. I won't be looking at the tools in great detail, but enough to get you started when looking up DNS records.