Certified Ethical Hacker – CEH – 312-50 – Question307

You are using NMAP to resolve domain names into IP addresses for a ping sweep later.

Which of the following commands looks for IP addresses?


A.
>host -t a hackeddomain.com
B. >host -t soa hackeddomain.com
C. >host -t ns hackeddomain.com
D. >host -t AXFR hackeddomain.com

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

The A record is an Address record. It returns a 32-bit IPv4 address, most commonly used to map hostnames to an IP address of the host.
References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types