Class DnsMessage

Namespace

AppleTvControlLibrary.Discovery.Dns

Assembly

AppleTvControlLibrary.Discovery.dll

Represents a DNS message (query or response).

public sealed class DnsMessage

Inheritance

object

DnsMessage

Inherited Members

object.ToString()

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

object.GetType()

Remarks

Initializes a new instance of the DnsMessage class.

Constructors

DnsMessage(ushort, ushort)

Represents a DNS message (query or response).

public DnsMessage(ushort msgId = 0, ushort flags = 288)

Parameters

msgId ushort

The message id.

flags ushort

The message flags.

Remarks

Initializes a new instance of the DnsMessage class.

Properties

Answers

Gets the answer resource records in this message.

public List<DnsResource> Answers { get; }

Property Value

List<DnsResource>

Authorities

Gets the authority resource records in this message.

public List<DnsResource> Authorities { get; }

Property Value

List<DnsResource>

Flags

Gets or sets the message flags.

public ushort Flags { get; set; }

Property Value

ushort

MsgId

Gets or sets the message id.

public ushort MsgId { get; set; }

Property Value

ushort

Questions

Gets the questions in this message.

public List<DnsQuestion> Questions { get; }

Property Value

List<DnsQuestion>

Resources

Gets the additional resource records in this message.

public List<DnsResource> Resources { get; }

Property Value

List<DnsResource>

Methods

Pack()

Packs this message into bytes.

public byte[] Pack()

Returns

byte[]

The packed message bytes.

Remarks

Only the question section is packed for outgoing queries, matching the only usage pyatv makes of this method (create_service_queries); answer/authority/resource packing is not needed by a discovery client and is therefore not implemented.

Unpack(byte[])

Unpacks bytes into this DnsMessage.

public DnsMessage Unpack(byte[] msg)

Parameters

msg byte[]

The raw message bytes.

Returns

DnsMessage

This instance, for chaining.