[RETRANSMISSION] DNS problems with nameservers for .be and 193.in-addr.arpa

At 5:46 PM +0200 2000/7/13, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:

>  if you detect probems it is best to alert the people concerned rather than
>  broadcasting as widely and indiscriminately as you have done. DNS SOA RRs
>  provide excellent reference points here.

	Unfortunately, it's been my experience that these labels 
typically age and are not kept up-to-date in many places.


	However, perhaps this is my memory of the multitude of problems I 
had when I was at AOL and posting daily "lamers" reports to 
comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains, and mailing off a copy of the notice 
to the address claimed in the SOA records.

	Maybe this experience with the information in the SOA records is 
less applicable to the higher-level domains, although I can say that 
in the case of the .be ccTLD, this would not have done anything more 
than what we had already done in the past.

>                                            There are no problems we can
>  detect with 193.in-addr.arpa name service at this point. We will follow up to
>  a smaller audience.

	I'm still very concerned about the number of SERVFAIL errors that 
I previously saw which have since been mysteriously fixed, and I am 
very, very concerned about the safety of any of the zones served by 
any of these machines that are both authoritative and 
caching/recursive.

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