What does the Flags: 0x0500
section of this DNS query packet mean?
Domain Name System (query)
Transaction ID: 0x4242
Flags: 0x0500 Standard query
0... .... .... .... = Response: Message is a query
.000 0... .... .... = Opcode: Standard query (0)
.... ..0. .... .... = Truncated: Message is not truncated
.... ...1 .... .... = Recursion desired: Do query recursively
.... .... .0.. .... = Z: reserved (0)
.... .... ...0 .... = Non-authenticated data: Unacceptable
Questions: 1
Answer RRs: 0
Authority RRs: 0
Additional RRs: 0
Queries
secure.net: type A, class IN
This packet seems abnormal as this section would normally be Flags: 0x0100
. What is the relevance of this section?