>3) A few minor suggested changes to DNS...
>rather than stating RTYPEs and QTYPEs as "A", "NS", "MD", "MF", "CNAME",
>how about making the decoded output a bit more verbose, ie. "Host
>address", "Authoritative name server", "Mail destination (obsolete)",
>"Mail forwarder (obsolete)", "Canonical name for alias", and so on. This
>would undoubtedly make it easier for anyone who didn't read RFC 1053 in
>the past half hour to understand the decoded output... :-)
>
If you want to put in the "explanations" such as "Host Address", I'd like
it *in addition to* the actual record types. The types are really easy to
compare with the actual database files so one can troubleshoot very easily.
Perhaps the longer winded explanations should be part of the context
sensitive help you also suggested. That way one could click on (or
otherwise select) an "A" record and the help would explain what an "A" was.
This would expecially apply (from my viewpoint and usage) to the
"(obsolete)" comments.
--john
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