LPI BSD Specialist
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714.4 Configure Client Side DNS (weight: 2) BSD-SPECIALIST Practice Questions (Page 3)
Part of the Topic 714: Basic BSD Network Administration domain, which makes up ~17% of our current practice bank. Linux Professional Institute does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~6–10 in this domain), expect 2–3 from this objective — we provide 30 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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A company's internal DNS server is configured as a caching-only server. When a client queries for `internal.example.com`, the server does not have the answer cached. What will the server do?
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A security analyst wants to verify that the IP address 192.0.2.15 has a PTR record pointing to `host.example.com`. Which `dig` command correctly performs a reverse DNS lookup?
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A small office has a single DNS server that hosts the zone for `office.local` and also resolves external names for clients. What type of DNS server is this?
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A FreeBSD server must resolve internal hostnames from `/etc/hosts` for reliability, but also needs to resolve external names via DNS. The admin wants to ensure that if a name is not in `/etc/hosts`, DNS is used, and NIS is never consulted. Which `hosts:` line in `/etc/nsswitch.conf` meets these requirements?
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When using the host command to query a DNS server, what is the default record type returned if no type is specified?
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