Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7555] DNS AD flag not shown properly
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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:58:30 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7555

--- Comment #4 from Marco Davids (Prive) <mdavids@xxxxxxxxxx> 2012-08-02 17:58:30 PDT ---
There is absolutely no harm in presenting this bit as the AD-flag. Even when it
concerns a query, it's still the header of a DNS message and it is still
referred to as the AD-bit. In fact, it is quite confusing for DNS experts the
way it is implemented now.

I used Wireshark, because I suspected dig, version 9.9.1, setting the AD-bit in
queries and I wanted to verify that. It's quite confusing when wireshark
suggests that the AD-bit isn't set, while in fact it is. Took me a while to
figure out. A waste of time. It would have been far better (and a perfectly
valid thing to do) if Wireshark would simply have shown it. 

I do agree that this bug is a duplicate of 2472, so sorry for that. But it does
seem to me that 2472 wasn't really resolved.

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