Significance of case in responses
David Botham
dns at botham.net
Thu Feb 6 22:44:08 UTC 2003
Case is not significant. However, it is preserved.
Dave...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Robert Faulds
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 5:26 PM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Significance of case in responses
>
>
> What is the significance of the case in the response to a query? I
> seen to recall something about cached vs. authoritative, or some
> such thing but can not find any reference to it in any documentation.
>
> Just as an example; If I query for a domain and receive:
>
> > dig query.com
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> query.com. 2D IN NS NS.SOME.DOMAIN
> query.com. 2D IN NS DNS.some.domain
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> query.com. 2D IN NS NS.SOME.DOMAIN
> query.com. 2D IN NS DNS.some.domain
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> NS.SOME.DOMAIN. 2D IN A 1.2.3.4
> DNS.some.domain 2D IN A 4.3.2.1
>
> Why is some or all of the record returned in upper case?
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
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