On 10/06/07, john lewis <johnlewis@???> wrote:
> I was reading through DebianPlanet and came across a mention of
> "Squishywishywoo's DNS checker" at http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/
>
> just for fun I entered the IP address of one of the 2 Zen DNS servers
> and at the end of masses of output got this result:
>
> 50.0% of queries will end in failure at 212.23.8.1 (ns0.zen.co.uk) -
> no answers
>
> 50.0% of queries will end in failure at 212.23.3.1 (ns1.zen.co.uk) -
> no answers
>
> Is this good, bad or just normal?
Note - It's a tool for checking DNS *records* not DNS servers.
I think the tool is broken. When you enter an IP address, what it's
supposed to do is look up a PTR record. It consistently fails for the
tool for several IP addresses, which the dig and host commands have no
problem resolving.
G
