[RESOLVED] Bits, Bytes and Boomerangs (without the boomerangs...)

By the way, someone on a DNS specific forum confirmed that the bits in that table I keep referring to are in big-endian order, so bit 0 is actually the most significant bit contrary to what you would think when looking at it. Apparently all network communications are done using big-endian format bytes.
Also, just to make sure my DNS query was being asked properly, I used WireShark (www.wireshark.org) to monitor my network card just as I sent the query and it all looks like its doing what I want it to :)

My query capture from wireshark:

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...8/DNSQuery.jpg

The capture of the response:

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...NSResponse.jpg

all looks as I wanted it to, so I guess I can finally mark this thread as resolved and start working on actually parsing the server's response :)

Thanks to all that helped!
Chris

Would help if I actually marked it as Resolved wouldnt it :)

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Originally Posted by RunsWithScissors

This string (EDIT: THis THREAD-too much code happening!)should be moved to the code bank, or a faq or something. I could not have found a better explanation of binary operations(?) by searching.

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I dont think it belongs in the codebank really, if someone is looking for similar information they can just do a search in this forum and will find it :)