A warning implies that you can choose to ignore it - and error implies that it must be corrected. It's either or error, or it is NOT. A "possible error condition" by definition is NOT an error, it's a WARNING. Why reinvent the English language?
I don't have a problem if DNSREPORT were to WARN me (yellow) that I have not configured a web site just IN CASE I meant to. I could ignore the warning. I do have a problem that it first reports an ERROR, something that needs fixing - but then I have to read the fine-print to learn, that it really is NOT an error, it's meant as a warning, just in case. Oh hello - if it's really a warning, why call it an error! I think once DNSreport takes such liberties in confusing very straight-forward black and white results, it loses it's value as a "reporter of fact". Fact of the matter remains: it reports an error (red) for this site when there is NONE! Now THAT is an error! I have customers that have 10 domains names reserved (for trademark protection reasons) for every one web domain. They choose not to support 'www' for those domains since they are undesirable names and they don't want them "solidified" by eventually appearing in search engines, etc. None of their DNS zones are erroneous by anyone's definition, except for DNSreport.com. Best Regards Andy Schmidt Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax: +1 201 934-9206 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Klinge Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 06:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] DNSREPORT "mandates" web site? www.cpbaker.com does not have an 'A' record.. Therefore you will have no web based traffic. If you don't want web that's fine.. No need for an 'A' record if all you are doing is hosting email/ftp services but you'll should use an 'A' record for your ftp.example.com and mail.example.com. You'll probably also want to establish PTR (rDNS) record for www.example.com too if you want email. In most cases a web domain (www) that has no 'A' record is a serious error. Hth, ~Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Schmidt Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 5:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] DNSREPORT "mandates" web site? Hi, 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 think that is misleading. At BEST it could be yellow/warning. 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.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... :-) You could see if the domain itself (domain.com) answers on port 80 - and if so, suggest that "www" might be missing. Best Regards Andy Schmidt H&M Systems Software, Inc. 600 East Crescent Avenue, Suite 203 Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458-1846 Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax: +1 201 934-9206 http://www.HM-Software.com/ ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. --- [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.
