DNS programming - once again

[Bill Larson]

Take a look at <http://www.protocols.com/pbook/tcpip5.htm>.
This has a graphical description of what the bits are in
a DNS packet.  Maybe it will help.

Bill Larson (wllarso at swcp.com)

> First of all thank you for your hints.
> If've read the rfc1035 already, but I still can't find an answer to my
> question.
> 
> Can anybody send me a "real" DNS-query-packet, containing the message
> and question section? This can be a really "ugly" character-string, but
> that is what I need to fully understand the coding of the bits and
> bytes. I do not mean the one that I can get from nslookup, because this
> one is already formatted.
> 
> Another example: When I have the type of an RR, it can have the type
> "PTR" for the value "12" and the meaning "domain name pointer". So what
> would the 16 bit type field look really look alike?