[dns-wg] Comparison of Delegation Checker (v 2.0 and v 2.1)

Dear Colleagues,

This message is about the DNS delegation checks performed when you update 
DOMAIN objects by requesting the updating of a delegation in the reverse 
address trees.

We have recently updated the web interface to use version 2.1 of the 
back-end library (Net::DelCheck) while the whois database still uses 
version 2.0.

We would like to ask the DNS Working Group to provide feedback on the 
version that is now available through the web interface. After considering 
the feedback, we plan to install the module for use with the whois 
database. We plan to do this after RIPE 50 (May 2 - 6) as part of a regular 
whois database upgrade.

You can find the delegation checker web interface at:

http://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/delcheck/delcheck2.cgi

You can find a list of the error codes returned by version 2.1 of the 
delegation checker at:

http://www.ripe.net/rs/reverse/delcheck/delchecker_descr.html

Detailed explanations of the most important differences between the tests 
that are currently running on the whois database (v 2.0) and those 
available through the web interface (v 2.1) can be found at:

http://www.ripe.net/rs/reverse/changes.html

This message relates to an earlier message to this list [1] and action item 
48.2 [2].

Regards,

Olaf M. Kolkman
RIPE NCC


[1] http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/dns-wg/2004/msg00172.html
[2] http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/dns/dns-actions.html