Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] DNS flags are not parsed completely

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From: Yaniv Kaul <ykaul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 16:44:22 +0200
In DNS, some flags are omitted. I tend to believe this causes some inaccuracies in the parsing of the flags. 
See atfached.
1. The AA flag is missing from a query (which is theoretically fine).
2. The location of the AA flag - just over where the Z flag bits are.

Similiar issues are in the response.
The Z flag is not shown it all. I think it should be, even (and actually because) it has to be 0!
In general, I think we should show even fields that have to be 0 (or any fixed value) - even if just to verify they are!

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