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when I rent a dedicated server, there have three buttons for a hostname.

www/whois/intoDNS, what's the meaning of them, what's the function they have?

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They appear to be just useless shortcuts for common tasks which can be done to a hostname:

  • The "www" link probably tries to open the hostname as a website (i.e. launches http://HKT-TEST01).
  • The "whois" link probably tries to do a WHOIS database lookup for the domain name.
  • The "intoDNS" link probably uses the https://intodns.com website to do miscellaneous "health checks" on the domain's DNS configuration. (Some of them superfluous.)
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