check-soa
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bortzmeyer
A simple command-line DNS testing tool
Interface of `github.com/miekg/dns` is truly terrible.
When we use the -ns option, it is often because there is a problem resolving the names. Therefore, IWBNI we could specify name servers by IP addresses: ``` % check-soa...
If a name server has a name but no IP address (here, the example uses the existing TLD "foo"), it is silently ignored: ``` % check-soa -ns "foo d.nic.fr" fr...
check-soa uses the local resolver to retrieve the list of NS. For instance, if the local resolver validates with DNSSEC _and_ the domain is broken (.MIL, today), the message is...
When there is no connectivity at all, and the resolver replies SERVFAIL, the error message is "No NS records for "demaziere.fr.". It is probably a domain but not a zone"...
The default behavior, testing each IP address of each name server name is OK (a machine may work with IPv4 but not IPv6, for instance). But it would be nice...