On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:33:49 +0100, Daniel Lorch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
But this is completely independent of the checks performed by the
domain name registry.
Is AXFR a requirement or not? Your FAQ doesn't say anything, your
helpdesk doesn't respond, please, I need to know :)
As has been pointed out to you in this thread already, TCP port 53 is
not only used for zone transfers. We do *not* check whether zone
transfers are allowed on your servers. What we do check is whether
your servers accept regular (non-AXFR/IXFR) queries on top of TCP.
DNS is specified to work over UDP and TCP. A resolver is not strictly
required to use UDP for a query. One situation where TCP is used has
been described already (after receiving a truncated response).
Note that we don't require anything. The name server check is
intended to help the user to determine whether his configuration is
likely going to work or not. It does not prevent you from activating
your domain (contrary to the old registry system). This particular
check informs you that your server will not interoperate with all
possible DNS implementations and may prevent certain responses from
being received by a resolver without truncation. (I do agree that the
tool should supply better explanations, though. I believe this is
being worked on).
--
Alex
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