(usagi-users 03507) Re: qtype ANY + dns

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Sanjib Das wrote:
> I got a small doubt regarding query type.
> Is the query-type ANY and  * are same. As per
> bind9 coding the value for qtype ANY  is 255 & also
> its same value for qtype * as per RFC 1035.
> But the RFC 1035 does not speak about qtype ANY....
> Please comment..

Yes, but QTYPE=*/ANY is not the same thing as a wildcard record.

You may find the follwoing document helpful, in particular section 
1.4:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsop-ipv6-dns-issues-11.txt

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