[An introduction to dns-terminology components and concepts](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-dns-terminology-components-and-concepts)
Before we begin to look at the specific techniques that exists to find subdomains, lets try to understand what subdomains are and how they work.
** A - records **
A stands for **address**
A stands for **address**.
The A record maps a name to one or more IP addresses, when the IP are known and stable.
So that would be 123.244.223.222 => example.com
AAAA - points to a IPv6 Record
**AAAA** - points to a IPv6 Record
** CNAME **
The CNAME record connects a name to another name. An example of that would be:
Another example is. If you have the domains mail.example.com and webmail.example.com. You can have webmail.example.com point to mail.example.com. So anyone visiting webmail.example.com will see the same thing as mail.example.com. It will NOT redirect you. Just show you the same content.
@@ -31,6 +36,7 @@ If foo.example.com points to bar.example.com, that mean that bar.example.com is
** Alias **
Kind of like CNAME in that it points to another name, not an IP.