Olivia Weiss

IST 220
Lab 4c
Section One
1. IP addresses:
Metrics.apple.com: 66.235.132.121
A1.phobos.apple.com: 8.18.65.58
Ax.itunes.apple.com: 8.18.65.67
Ax.seach.itunes.apple.com: 8.18.65.27

2. Transport layer protocol used by DNS is UDP.

3. DNS traffic uses port # 53

Section Two
4. IPv4: 157.240.2.35
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5.

6. The results are different because the servers are across the world from each other. It
does not make sense to use the same server since they are so far apart so the second
address will locate a server that is closer.
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Section Three
7. IPv4: 146.186.157.6 for www.psu.edu
Reverse lookup name returned: horned-screamer.cac.psu.edu.
8. College of IST: 5 ironport.ist.psu.edu
College of engineering: 10 secmail.engr.psu.edu

9. The entries show where the start of authority is.

Origin is the name of the server
Mail addr is the university address from question 5.
Serial number represents the zone file and increases every time a change is made
Refresh is the time in seconds that pass while waiting during update checks/refreshing.
Retry is the time in seconds that pass before a refresh should be attempted after a
failure.
Expire is essentially the wait period for how long an entry will be allowed to sit without
expiring.
Minimum represents the minimum amount of time that a record can be cached.
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Section Four
10. A. The domain expires 1/18/2023
B. Yes if the owner does not renew the domain name. If the owner choses the option to renew
the domain than they have priority over any other people who may be interested and they will
continue to own the domain name.
C. The registrar is MarkMoniter, Inc.
D. DNS registry is a database including all of the domain names along with the registrar
information.