Terms starting with A

5 terms in Internet

  • A record

    Internet › DNS records

    An A record is the DNS resource record that maps a host name to a 32-bit IPv4 address so that clients can…

  • AAAA record

    Internet › DNS records

    An AAAA record is the DNS resource record that maps a domain name to an IPv6 address, the counterpart of the A…

  • Anycast

    Internet › Internet addressing

    Anycast is an Internet addressing method in which many servers announce the same IP address and routing delivers each packet to the…

  • Authoritative DNS

    Internet › DNS

    Authoritative DNS is the server role that holds the original records of a DNS zone and gives definitive answers about names in…

  • Autonomous system

    Internet › Internet fundamentals

    An autonomous system is a network under one administrative routing policy, identified by an AS number and connected to the rest of…