Troubleshooting DNSSEC issue w/ ic.fbi.gov

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Thu Jul 18 13:42:11 UTC 2013


On 18/07/13 14:35, Barry S. Finkel wrote:
>> The SOA RNAME should work:
>>>
>>> fbi.gov.        600    IN    SOA    ns1.fbi.gov. dns-admin.fbi.gov.
>>> 2013071601 7200 3600 2592000 43200
>
> In my years as a DNS administrator, about 50% of the time I tried to
> send e-mail to the SOA RNAME, that mail was returned as undeliverable.
> I never have trusted that field.

Unfortunately, this has been my experience. Clueful DNS admins keep it 
valid, but you never need to contact the clueful ones - only the clueless!


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