what is DLEN value?
Berislav Todorovic
BERI at etf.bg.ac.yu
Fri Jul 9 13:05:50 UTC 1999
In article <ucbh3.11286$y92.6010 at news.rdc1.ct.home.com>,
"MM" <news at interlution.com> wrote:
> What is the DLEN value when you perform a DNS lookup. For example,
> -> www.domain.com
> type = A, class = 1, ttl = 58526, dlen = 4
> inet address = 255.255.255.255
I guess dlen corresponds to the value, referrted to as RDLENGTH in
RFC 1035: an unsigned 16 bit integer that specifies the length in
octets of the RDATA field of a resource record. For example, A RR
has 4-byte long RDATA field and, therefore, dlen=4.
Regards,
Beri
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