For what its worth, I think a yellow warning is more appropriate for such a problem than a red one.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] DNSREPORT "mandates" web site? >one of my customer's domains came back with: > >ERROR: I couldn't find any A records for www.CPBAKER.COM. But I did find a >referral to ns1.webhost.hm-software.com. (and maybe others). If you want a >website at www.CPBAKER.COM, you will need an A record for www.CPBAKER.COM. >If you do not want a website at www.CPBAKER.COM, you can ignore this error. > >DNSREPORT reports this in RED as an ERROR. I would estimate that somewhere around 95% of domains that are actively used have websites. If anyone has a domain that *should* have a website, but the website is not acceissible, it is usually a *very* serious problem. That's why it generates a FAIL. As it says, "If you do not want a website at www.CPBAKER.COM, you can ignore this error." >I think that is misleading. At BEST it could be yellow/warning. The problem with that is that if someone *does* have a web site, they may not notice that there is a problem. >After all, there is no RFC that requires that every domain must have a >"www" host. What next? An error if we don't define ><ftp://ftp.domain.com>ftp.domain.com - just in case someone MEANT to have >that host name? How about "mail.domain.com" - that's also a "popular" >name that someone could possibly have wanted but forgot to define... :-) There are a lot of warnings/errors that the site generates when there really aren't any problems. However, the idea of www.DNSreport.com is to alert to potential problems, erring on the side of reporting problems that may not exist rather than not reporting real problems. -Scott --- Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail mailservers. Declude Virus: Catches known viruses and is the leader in mailserver vulnerability detection. Find out what you've been missing: Ask about our free 30-day evaluation. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
