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Re: [zonecheck-tests] incorrect failure for "hostmaster MX is not an al


From: Stephane Bortzmeyer
Subject: Re: [zonecheck-tests] incorrect failure for "hostmaster MX is not an alias"
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:17:55 +0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14)

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:50:41AM +0200,
 Marco Schumann <address@hidden> wrote 
 a message of 74 lines which said:

> NS1.verizonbusiness.com != /mia0[12]\.digex\.com/, thus it's not a
> failure of the digex.com zone, yes? So why throw a fatal error for
> digex.com on a SERVFAIL of a third party?

It's not any random third party. It is the DNS provider choosen by
Digex. So, it makes perfect sense to test it. 

> So there is no technical problem at all.

SERVFAIL is not a technical problem? We disagree here.

> Maybe I miss some point, but why is an admin of one domain held
> responsible for possible mistakes in foreign name servers at all? 

It is not FOREIGN! It is the provider they use!





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