Packet Level Analysis of DNS Queries

A DNS query is sent from the client and the DNS response comes from the DNS server.DNS query and response messages are sent over UDP.

Wireshark Output

Here we can see that DNS is using UDP and asking for freefortskins[.]com and in return it gets an A record (IP address) of the site.

If we expand the DNS packets, we can see that they come in two varieties, Standard Query as and a Standard Query Response.