Talking to DNS

[Barry Margolin]

In article <Ud%d4.249$q4.159599 at news.tcp.co.uk>,
Dean Earley <dean at tsi-group.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know how to talk to a DNS server and get information back from
>it.
>  All I can find is what the server should reply with, but nothing about
>connection information, and query format.

Isn't the obvious place to look for this in RFC 1035?  It's the DNS
specification.

I don't have my copy here, but I think the DNS&BIND book also has an
appendix that describes the data format.

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