Re: [zonecheck-tests] Enom and Zone Check?

[Nicolas Barraud]

On 9/15/07, Stephane Bortzmeyer <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:28:52AM -0400,
>  Nicolas Barraud <address@hidden> wrote
>  a message of 40 lines which said:
>
> > coherence between NS and ANY records
>
> Indeed:
>
> % dig @dns1.name-services.com ffb.fr NS
> [displays the NS records in the answer section]
> ANSWER SECTION:
> ffb.fr.                 3600    IN      NS      dns1.name-services.com.
> ...
>
> % dig @dns1.name-services.com ffb.fr ANY
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> ffb.fr.                 3600    IN      A       64.74.223.198
> ffb.fr.                 3600    IN      MX      10 routenullmx.ffb.fr.
> ffb.fr.                 3600    IN      SOA     dns1.name-services.com.
>        info.name-services.com. 2002050701 10001 1801 604801 181
> [and no NS records, they are only in the authority section]
>
> So, Zonecheck rightly complains, this name server seems quite buggy.
>
> > I have no idea what that means, and I don't even know what an ANY
> > record is.
>
> Please talk with your DNS administrator. Zonecheck is a technical
> tool, intended for a technical audience (for the record :-) there are
> no ANY records, an ANY query means "give me all the records you know,
> whatever the type).
>

Thank you Stephane, I will forward that to the Enom Helpdesk. I will
follow-up here should they fix it or not.

After all, it's a major global registrar and DNS provider, they need
to allow .fr domains into their service!


Nicolas