Scanning & Reconnaissance Challenge 1 - Dig it up

Prompt

Looks like Liber8tion has spun up new services—explore the DNS records for liber8.cityinthe.cloud. Note: Make sure to use the device with the resolver hostname in the provided terminal as your DNS resolver. Ex: dig @resolver …

Answers

Q1 (20 pts) - What is the FQDN of the authoritative name server for liber8.cityinthe.cloud?
ns1.liber8.cityinthe.cloud

Q2 (20 pts) - What is the Start Of Authority serial number for liber8.cityinthe.cloud?
2025011701

Q3 (20 pts) - What is the domain name of the Certificate Authority that is allowed to issue TLS certificates for liber8.cityinthe.cloud?
letsencrypt.org

Q4 (20 pts) - What is the full hostname (FQDN) that maps to the IP 10.0.0.20?
web.liber8.cityinthe.cloud

Q5 (20 pts) - What is the full hostname (FQDN) of the server running the minecraft service?
mc2.liber8.cityinthe.cloud

Steps I Took

I referenced this websites

https://man.archlinux.org/man/dig.1 https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/linux-unix/dig-command-in-linux-with-examples/

I used the following commands to get the answers

dig @resolver liber8.cityinthe.cloud NS dig @resolver liber8.cityinthe.cloud SOA dig @resolver liber8.cityinthe.cloud CAA dig @resolver -x 10.0.0.20 dig @resolver _minecraft._tcp.liber8.cityinthe.cloud SRV