Named Error Codes
Mark Olbert
mark at arcabama.com
Mon Oct 18 18:40:10 UTC 1999
On 18 Oct 1999 08:27:04 -0700, Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com>
wrote:
>RFC 1035 documents the following DNS response codes (NXDOMAIN is the usual
>abbreviation for "Name Error", the rest have pretty obvious mappings to the
>common abbreviations):
>
>RCODE Response code - this 4 bit field is set as part of
> responses. The values have the following
> interpretation:
>
> 0 No error condition
>
> 1 Format error - The name server was
> unable to interpret the query.
>
> 2 Server failure - The name server was
> unable to process this query due to a
> problem with the name server.
>
> 3 Name Error - Meaningful only for
> responses from an authoritative name
> server, this code signifies that the
> domain name referenced in the query does
> not exist.
>
> 4 Not Implemented - The name server does
> not support the requested kind of query.
>
> 5 Refused - The name server refuses to
> perform the specified operation for
> policy reasons. For example, a name
> server may not wish to provide the
> information to the particular requester,
> or a name server may not wish to perform
> a particular operation (e.g., zone
> transfer) for particular data.
>
> 6-15 Reserved for future use.
Barry,
Thanx for the reply. I've read the relevant section in RFC 1035, but
when I try to parse the 413 error code I don't get a sensible answer:
decimal 413 = 0000 0001 1001 1101
Am I looking in the wrong place?
- Mark
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