[ih] qdcount

[Kevin J Dunlap]

I always think of it as Query Domain Count, because the query section has no RDATA's in it unlike the other sections, each query has just a Name, Class, and Type.

-Kevin


Your message dated: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:29:08 GMT
>The DNS specs refer to the QDCOUNT, ANCOUNT, NSCOUNT and ARCOUNT fields
>in the DNS header.  I've always assumed ANCOUNT = ANswer COUNT, NSCOUNT
>= Name Server(s) COUNT, ARCOUNT = Additional Record(s) COUNT and QDCOUNT
>= Query COUNT, but what does the 'D' stand for, if anything?  Data?
>Domain(s)?
>
>John
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