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714.4 Configure Client Side DNS (weight: 2) BSD-SPECIALIST Practice Questions (Page 4)
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 runs its own authoritative DNS server for `example.com`. The server is also configured to allow recursion for internal clients. An external user reports that they can resolve `www.example.com` but get a timeout when querying other domains. What is the most likely cause?
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A user reports that they cannot resolve a hostname, but other hosts on the same network can. Which of the following is the most likely cause?
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Which DNS resource record type maps a hostname to an IPv6 address?
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Which type of DNS server holds the master copy of a zone's data and is considered authoritative for that zone?
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A FreeBSD system must resolve hostnames by checking the local `/etc/hosts` file first, then DNS, and finally NIS. The admin is editing `/etc/nsswitch.conf`. Which `hosts:` line achieves this order?
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