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Re: [DNSOP] Fwd: [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC1035 (5915)

Ray Bellis <ray@bellis.me.uk> Mon, 23 December 2019 22:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Fwd: [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC1035 (5915)
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On 20/12/2019 15:08, Bob Harold wrote:

> But if we are updating it, could we consider a better word than
> "forward" ?  Actually "backward" would be correct, although I prefer
> "from the back to the front" as used elsewhere.

It's not possible to traverse the RRs in a raw DNS packet "backwards".
 You have to start at the beginning and remember the offset of each RR
found.

Ray

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