What is HINFO record?
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What is HINFO record?
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HINFO stands for Host Information. HINFO records are maintained to provide hardware and operating system information about each host in the network. For security reasons, HINFO records are not provided on public network servers. However, no application depends upon these records, and the sole purpose of maintaining HINFO records is to provide additional information to the applications. For example, application protocols such as FTP may use special procedures when communicating with computers of a known CPU and operating system type.
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