[dns-operations] Shameless plug for our Zonecheck software (Was: af.mil DNS issue

[John Payne]

On Jul 3, 2006, at 3:22 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 12:36:11AM -0400,
>  Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote
>  a message of 41 lines which said:
>
>> Yeah, but this isn't necessarily the fault of the nameserver -- it
>> could be the result of an ignorant or overly aggressive firewall
>> administrator, for example.
>
> IMHO, it changes nothing: Zonecheck is a DNS client and, therefore, it
> tests the whole chain, and is not able to sort out the
> responsabilities. TCP does not work, period. Whose fault is it is not
> Zonecheck's business.

Ah, but a FATAL error on what has zero operational impact is being  
pedantic for the sake of being pedantic.
Not something that should be encouraged IM(NS)HO.