[dns-operations] A feature of ednscomp that may confuse the naive

[Petr Špaček]

On 4.6.2018 14:51, Chris Thompson wrote:
> I notice that https://dnsflagday.net/ now encourages you to try out a 
> domain
> name "without www".
> 
> The ednscomp site produces results which are liable to confuse end-users 
> who
> don't understand the different between a domain name and a zone name (and
> there are plenty of them). Thus
> 
>   https://ednscomp.isc.org/ednscomp/3d161c460c
> 
> makes it appear that everything is OK with lists.cam.ac.uk. (It is, of 
> course,
> but ednscomp hasn't actually tested any nameservers!) The result for a name
> that does not exist, such as
> 
>   https://ednscomp.isc.org/ednscomp/3d161c460c
> 
> at least makes it look as though something is wrong. It would probably be
> better if endscomp at least gave an error saying "no NS records" for a
> domain name that is not a zone name.
> 
> This isn't meant to sound ungrateful to ISC for providing endscomp.

Thank you for noticing this, this is regression from last change. It 
used to return error if there were no NS records for given name.

-- 
Petr Špaček  @  CZ.NIC