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Lab - Observe DNS Name Resolution

Objectives
· Observe the conversion of a URL to an IP address.
· Observe DNS lookup using the nslookup command.

Background / Scenario
Domain Name System (DNS) is invoked when you type a Uniform Resource Locator
(URL), such as http://www.cisco.com, into a web browser. The first part of the URL
describes which protocol is being used. Common protocols are HTTP (Hypertext
Transfer Protocol), HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer), and
FTP (File Transfer Protocol).
DNS uses the second part of the URL, which in this example is www.cisco.com. DNS
translates the domain name (like www.cisco.com) to an IP address to allow the source
host to reach the destination host.
Work in pairs to complete this lab.

Required Resources
· 1 PC (Windows 10)
· Internet connectivity

Instructions

Part 1: Observe DNS Conversion

Step 1: Observe DNS operation.


a. Open a Command Prompt window.
b. At the prompt, enter ping cisco.com. The computer needs to translate cisco.com
into an IP address so it knows where to send the Internet Control Message Protocol
(ICMP) packets. Ping is a type of ICMP packet.
c. The first line of the output shows cisco.com converted to an IP address by DNS. You
should be able to see the effect of DNS even if
your school has a firewall that prevents pinging, or if Cisco has prevented people fro
m pinging their web server.
C:\Users\Student> ping cisco.com

Pinging cisco.com [72.163.4.185] with 32 bytes of data:


Reply from 72.163.4.185: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=244
Reply from 72.163.4.185: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=244
Reply from 72.163.4.185: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=244
Reply from 72.163.4.185: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=244

Ping statistics for 72.163.4.185:


Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 32ms, Maximum = 34ms, Average = 33ms
Questions:

Which IP address is shown on the screen?


Answer Area
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Should cisco.com always resolve to the same IP address? Explain.


Answer Are
List a few applications (besides the ping command) that need DNS to translate a
domain name to an IP address. Perform an internet search as necessary.
Answer Area

Step 2: Verify DNS operation using the nslookup command.


a. At the command prompt, enter the nslookup command.
C:\Users\Student> nslookup
Default Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8

>

The output above shows that the Default DNS Server was configured to use a
Google DNS server.
Question:

What is your Default Server listed as?


Answer Are
b. After issuing the previous nslookup command, notice how the prompt changed to a
single >. This is the prompt for the nslookup program. From this prompt, you can
enter commands related to DNS.
At the prompt, type ? to see a list of all the available commands that you can use in
nslookup mode.
Question:

List three commands that you can use with nslookup:


Answer Are

c. At the nslookup prompt, type cisco.com.


> cisco.com
Questions:

What is the translated IP address?


Answer Ar
Is the IP address an IPv4 address or an IPv6 address?
Answer Area

Is it the same as the IP address shown with the ping command?


Answer Area

At the prompt, type the IP address of the Cisco web server that you just found. What
is the Name result?
Answer Area

Step 3: Identify mail servers using the nslookup command


a. To identify mail servers using nslookup, enter set type=mx.
> set type=mx
b. At the prompt, enter cisco.com.
> cisco.com
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Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer:
cisco.com MX preference = 20, mail exchanger = rcdn-mx-
01.cisco.com
cisco.com MX preference = 30, mail exchanger = aer-mx-
01.cisco.com
cisco.com MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = alln-mx-
01.cisco.com
>
Question:

What are the names of the Cisco mail servers identified in the mail exchanger field?
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c. At the prompt, type exit to return to the regular command prompt.
d. At the prompt, type ipconfig /all.
Question:

Write the IP addresses of all the DNS servers that your school computer uses.
Answer Area
e. Enter exit to close the Command Prompt window.

Reflection
1. If your school did not have a DNS server, what effect would this have on your use of the i
nternet?
Answer Are

2. Some companies do not dedicate a single server for DNS. Instead, the DNS server
provides other functions
as well. Which functions do you think might be included on a DNS server? Use the ipcon
fig /all command to help you with this.
Answer Area

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