Meaning of the five fields of the ANSWER SECTION in dig query

Reference: http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch15/#answer and http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch8/a.html

The first field is the NAME: The domain name being returned

The second field (108 in your example) is the TTL in seconds.

IN is the CLASS. Here, IN stands for Internet.

A is the TYPE. Here, A stands for mapping a domain name to an IPv4 address.

The last field is of course the IP Address.

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