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Maya is setting up a database client application on her workstation. She configures her application to connect to a remote database server using a hostname.

A domain name server (DNS) is used in this process to resolve the host connection.

Table 1 shows some of the network details for Maya's workstation and the remote database server.

Table 1

Database ServerMaya's Workstation
MAC address: 08-00-27-00-EC-05MAC address: A0-B1-C2-D3-E4-F5
IPv4 address: 198.51.100.42IPv4 address: 192.168.0.15
IPv4 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0IPv4 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Domain / Hostname: db.luminarydata.ioDestination field: db.luminarydata.io

Identify the input to and the output from the domain name server during this resolution process.

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