getting the SOA e-mail

[Mathias Koerber]

There are a few tools to check. I like dnswalk, then there is
doc and a few others. See http://www.dns.net/dnsrd

regards
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Thompson <matthewt at fairplay.co.uk>
To: bind-users at isc.org <bind-users at isc.org>
Date: Monday, June 05, 2000 6:10 PM
Subject: RE: getting the SOA e-mail


|I want to make sure I don't start getting any mails from Ralf (Nothing
|personal I just prefer to try and learn how to do this properly) - is there
|anything I can do to check wether my DNS is setup and running as close to
|perfect as possible?
|
|fairplay.co.uk
|actuality.co.uk
|wsdonline.com
|
|Just a few of the domains
|
|M at t :o)
|
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Ralf Hildebrandt [mailto:R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de]
|Sent: 05 June 2000 10:56
|To: bind-users at isc.org
|Subject: Re: getting the SOA e-mail
|
|
|On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 05:37:37PM +0800, Mathias Koerber wrote:
|> If people don't care enough about their DNS that they have lame servers,
|> do you think they willhave a working email address in the SOA record?
|> Experience shows that a large percentage of SOA contact emails addresses
|> belong to staff who long left the organization...
|> As such, i think this would be a waste of time and resources.
|
|I totally agree. And IF the address is correct, the mailservers of these
|morons aren't properly configured. I use the lamers shellscript for
|automagically reporting lame delegations and get LOTS of bounces.
|
|