Hello I'm trying to test my local dns with dnswalk (newest version, v 2.0.2) and I'm confused about the output. I've read the dnswalk man page and searched the list archives but I'm none the wiser.
The output of dnswalk looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] slaves]# dnswalk xx.yyyyy.co.jp. Checking xx.yyyyy.co.jp. Getting zone transfer of xx.yyyyy.co.jp. from dev-gw.xx.yyyyy.co.jp...done. SOA=dev-gw.xx.yyyyy.co.jp contact=root.xx.yyyyy.co.jp BAD: xx.yyyyy.co.jp NS mail.xx.yyyyy.co.jp: CNAME (to mail) WARN: xx.yyyyy.co.jp MX mail.xx.yyyyy.co.jp: CNAME (to mail) 0 failures, 1 warnings, 1 errors. And here is my zone file: [EMAIL PROTECTED] named]# cat db.xx.yyyyy.co.jp $ORIGIN . $TTL 86400 ; 1 day xx.yyyyy.co.jp IN SOA dev-gw.xx.yyyyy.co.jp. root.xx.yyyyy.co.jp. ( 2008100905 ; serial 10800 ; refresh (3 hours) 3600 ; retry (1 hour) 604800 ; expire (1 week) 86400 ; minimum (1 day) ) NS dev-gw.xx.yyyyy.co.jp. NS mail.xx.yyyyy.co.jp. MX 10 mail.xx.yyyyy.co.jp. $ORIGIN xx.yyyyy.co.jp. mail A 172.16.252.110 dev-gw A 172.16.252.104 If dnswalk is still a reliable tool, could someone help with deciphering its report please. Thanks very much. Ian Masters