> >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.
I checked in a change that puts, in the detailed expansion of an RR (one
entry per field), the detailed explanation, but leaves the RR type name
in the summary line for the RR.
I also added decoding for PTR and CNAME RRs.
