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

[Mark Andrews]

> On 4 Jun 2018, at 11:37 pm, Petr Špaček <petr.spacek at nic.cz> wrote:
> 
> 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

And addressed.

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