Don't understand message ...
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Tue Feb 15 20:58:49 UTC 2000
In article <2688.950642102 at gromit.rfc1035.com>,
Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Jeffery" == Jeffery Richards [2667] <jrichard at mda.ca> writes:
>
> Jeffery> In the reference it refers to NXDOMAIN and SERVFAIL as
> Jeffery> two possible variations of the error. In my message it
> Jeffery> says "(3)". How do I figure out which of those two items
> Jeffery> is "3"?
>
>% grep NXDOMAIN /usr/include/arpa/nameser.h
>#define NXDOMAIN 3 /* non existent domain */
>
>A list of response codes is given in RFC1035, which is always a good
>place to start when trying to decode numbers that appear in DNS
>packets: reply codes, query types, etc.
Although in this case, it might be confusing. The "NXDOMAIN" abbreviation
didn't come into existence until later -- RFC 1035 calls this "Name error".
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