Don't understand message ...

[Barry Margolin]

In article <2688.950642102 at gromit.rfc1035.com>,
Jim Reid  <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Jeffery" == Jeffery Richards [2667] <jrichard at mda.ca> writes:
>
>    Jeffery> In the reference it refers to NXDOMAIN and SERVFAIL as
>    Jeffery> two possible variations of the error.  In my message it
>    Jeffery> says "(3)".  How do I figure out which of those two items
>    Jeffery> is "3"?
>
>% grep NXDOMAIN /usr/include/arpa/nameser.h 
>#define NXDOMAIN        3               /* non existent domain */
>
>A list of response codes is given in RFC1035, which is always a good
>place to start when trying to decode numbers that appear in DNS
>packets: reply codes, query types, etc.

Although in this case, it might be confusing.  The "NXDOMAIN" abbreviation
didn't come into existence until later -- RFC 1035 calls this "Name error".

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