DNS message header

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> Hello!
> 
> According to RFC1035 section 4.1.1 the Z-field in the DNS message header
> is reserved for future use. But when I'm doing SOA-requests I get a value 
> of '2' in the SOA-response. 
> 
> My question is: Is the Z-filed in use now (since the RFC is a bit old), or
> is this just something Bind is experimenting with ? 

	All but one of the bits has been allocated.
	Take a look in doc/rfc, things have moved on since RFC 1035.
> 
> 
> I'm running Bind 9.0.0rc1 on NetBSD myself.

	BIND 9.0.0 has been released.  We really do expect people to
	move onto the release version once it has been released.

> 
> regards, 
> Ivar Skjoerseter

	Mark
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