DNS help

[Jason Clinton]

Hello everyone. I know I should have learned this long ago but somehow
it never seemed relevant to anything I was working on.

Can someone point me to a quick reference or quickly summarize how those
silly little flags in DNS affect resolve IP addresses? Was is MX? A? How
does www work?

I know this all releates to bind and the like. I've been using dig and
host to do my DNS lookups lately but only partially understand the
output. Maybe someone could reply with a generic dig output and explain
what each field means?

Thank you!

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Jason Clinton
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