query log: what does 63864 mean?

[Stanley Liu]

Jim Reid wrote:

>     Stanley> 16-Feb-2001 08:32:04.000 XX /198.133.29.82/mail1.tmca.com.au/63864/IN
>
> Client 198.133.29.82 was looking for a record which has type number
> 63864 for the name mail1.tmca.com.au. This record type is not defined.
> It's probably some WINS record type and Microsoft just plucked the
> number out of the air without getting it assigned via IETF/IANA.

Thanks for the prompt reply.  The DNS is for Internet purpose and should not have WINS
accessing it.  Hmmm I wonder ...  One thing is that can a "type" be numeric?  I
thought label cannot be numeric and I assumed type would be the same.  Obviously not.

Back to my original motive for asking the question: could I safely assume that it was
just a malformed query?

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Stanley Liu
stanley.liu at tmca.com.au

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