what is DLEN value?

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Jul 9 13:47:39 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,

Data LENgth.  The number of bytes in the RDATA field of the record.  The
data field of an A record is an IP address, which takes 4 bytes.

It's called RDLENGTH in RFC 1035.

>->  www.domain.com
>    type = A, class = 1, ttl = 58526, dlen = 4
>    inet address = 255.255.255.255

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