DNS Record Types Explained: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, SRV, CAA, PTR, HTTPS/SVCB + Deep Troubleshooting – Part 1
DNS looks deceptively simple—names in, IPs out—but production DNS is a distributed database with caching, delegation boundaries, transport quirks, and cryptographic validation (DNSSEC) layered on top. This guide is written as a “field manual”: what each DNS record type does, when to use it, how to configure it, and what to check when it breaks. […]
