val responseCode = flags and 0xf

    if (responseCode == NXDOMAIN) {
      throw UnknownHostException("$hostname: NXDOMAIN")
    } else if (responseCode == SERVFAIL) {
      throw UnknownHostException("$hostname: SERVFAIL")
    }

    val questionCount = buf.readShort().toInt() and 0xffff
    val answerCount = buf.readShort().toInt() and 0xffff
    buf.readShort() // authority record count

  # to work in an offline environment:
  # https://github.com/coredns/coredns/issues/2494#issuecomment-457215452
  # CoreDNS should handle those domains and answer with NXDOMAIN instead of SERVFAIL
  # otherwise pods stops trying to resolve the domain.
  if [ "${IP_FAMILY}" = "ipv6" ] || [ "${IP_FAMILY}" = "dual" ]; then
    # Get the current config