A proposal from RIPE DNS Working Group

Dear Artur Romao,

I'm glad to contact you, acting on request of the ripe dns working
group which, during the last RIPE meeting in Amsterdam, discussed about
DNS failures and made a proposal as stated in the following excerpt
from the minutes:

{...}
     Some people do not watch their name servers: it happens that some name
     servers are left unattended and fail without anyone noticing. This
     has an impact on the performance and reliability of the overall name
     service.
     
     People should watch their name servers and their zones on their primary
     and secondaries. At least the 'host' command can be used with the '-C'
     option to do this at regular intervals.
     
       During the plenary session someone remembered the existance of
       RFC1713 A. Romao, "Tools for DNS debugging", which is usually
       referred to as the guide for DNS administrators and suggested to ask
       the author to include such recommendation.
     
       [ACTION on ABB]
{...}

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