ALL A AAAA CAA CNAME MX NS PTR SOA SRV TXT ANY

NS records for nic.uk:

Record	Type	Value	TTL
nic.uk	NS	dns3.nic.uk.	43200
nic.uk	NS	dns4.nic.uk.	43200
nic.uk	NS	nsa.nic.uk.	43200
nic.uk	NS	nsb.nic.uk.	43200
nic.uk	NS	nsc.nic.uk.	43200
nic.uk	NS	nsd.nic.uk.	43200
nic.uk	NS	dns1.nic.uk.	43200
nic.uk	NS	dns2.nic.uk.	43200

id 51288, opcode QUERY, rcode NOERROR, flags QR RD RA
;QUESTION
nic.uk. IN NS
;ANSWER
nic.uk. 43200 IN NS dns3.nic.uk.
nic.uk. 43200 IN NS dns4.nic.uk.
nic.uk. 43200 IN NS nsa.nic.uk.
nic.uk. 43200 IN NS nsb.nic.uk.
nic.uk. 43200 IN NS nsc.nic.uk.
nic.uk. 43200 IN NS nsd.nic.uk.
nic.uk. 43200 IN NS dns1.nic.uk.
nic.uk. 43200 IN NS dns2.nic.uk.
;AUTHORITY
;ADDITIONAL
nsa.nic.uk. 36265 IN A 156.154.100.3
nsb.nic.uk. 29627 IN A 156.154.101.3
nsc.nic.uk. 27789 IN A 156.154.102.3
nsd.nic.uk. 17648 IN A 156.154.103.3
dns1.nic.uk. 39920 IN A 213.248.216.1
dns2.nic.uk. 28079 IN A 103.49.80.1
dns3.nic.uk. 38114 IN A 213.248.220.1
nsa.nic.uk. 21831 IN AAAA 2001:502:ad09::3
nsb.nic.uk. 17811 IN AAAA 2001:502:2eda::3
nsc.nic.uk. 34863 IN AAAA 2610:a1:1009::3
nsd.nic.uk. 19873 IN AAAA 2610:a1:1010::3
dns1.nic.uk. 16598 IN AAAA 2a01:618:400::1
dns2.nic.uk. 673 IN AAAA 2401:fd80:400::1
dns3.nic.uk. 41414 IN AAAA 2a01:618:404::1
dns4.nic.uk. 17821 IN AAAA 2401:fd80:404::1

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DNS NS Record

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Example NS record

An example NS record may look like the following:

Record	Type	Value	TTL
example.com	NS	ns1.nameserver.com	3600

example.com represents the domain of the record.

NS is the record type.

ns1.nameserver.com is the value of the record. This is the address of the nameserver for this domain. NS records cannot point to CNAME records.

3600 is the TTL (time to live) of the record in seconds, this example represents 1 hour. This means that when a record has had updates made to it, then it will take 1 hour to update.

Primary & secondary NS records

Domains are typically configured with multiple NS records, this is important because if the nameservers for a domain are not configured correctly then this will mean that the website, email, or other services for the domain will not work.

To configure primary and secondary or backup nameservers multiple NS records should be created for the domain.

Record	Type	Value	TTL
example.com	NS	ns1.nameserver.com	3600
example.com	NS	ns2.nameserver.com	3600