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The DNS service is critical for users to access your website through the Internet.
DNS servers manage queries to your domain. Furthermore, they impact your website’s performance (security, speed, uptime) and users’ experience.
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The Host command is a built-in utility software with a command-line interface that you can find on Linux or macOS and serves for network diagnostics. The most common use of host command is to perform DNS lookups and find different information about a domain name and its DNS records.
Access the command through the Terminal.
Before we see how to use the Host command, let’s understand it better by seeing the purpose, syntax, and options for better results.
The DS record is a specific DNS record that is used to secure the DNS (DNSSEC). It uses cryptographic keys to verify zones from the DNSSEC chain of trust.
DNSSEC is the solution to secure, otherwise unsecured DNS. It is a chain of trust that uses a combination of public and private cryptographic keys to authenticate each step of DNS resolving processes. Starting from the authoritative name server, going through each step on the way, and checking that the DNS records to see if they are truly coming from the authoritative name server for the zone.
