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BuddyNS delegation lab

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Color Indication Color Indication Color Indication
  Zone.   Nameserver serving outdated data.   Nameserver from the BuddyNS backbone.
  Nameserver delegated by zone.   Server was queried and timed out.   Inconsistency between zone and registry.

Geographical distribution of the Authority servers

Location Server

Geographical locations are established via MaxMind's GeoLite technology. Some locations may be inexact.

Delegation tests for gtld-servers.net

Test Result Notes
Is Zone OK The indicated domain gtld-servers.net is a zone: authority and nameserver data is announced for it. These are the authority parameters for zone gtld-servers.net:
Master
av4.nstld.com.
Administrator
nstld@verisign-grs.com
Version serial
1731629906
Slave refresh
3600
Slave retry
900
Slave expiry
1209600
Negative cache
86400
Zone/Registry consistent OK The list of nameservers declared by the last delegating server and the authoritative server match. Configuration looks healthy.
Authoritative servers consistent OK Every nameserver authoritative for gtld-servers.net correctly serves the same zone version, so client queries will get the same response regardless of the server they reach. Here's the summary:
  • av4.nstld.com → #1731629906
  • av2.nstld.com → #1731629906
  • av3.nstld.com → #1731629906
  • av1.nstld.com → #1731629906
Number of servers OK gtld-servers.net delegates its DNS to 4 servers. This is a sufficient number to provide DNS continuity. RFC 2182 recommends 3 to 5 servers "when higher reliability is required": BuddyNS recommends 4 or 5.
Unresponsive nameservers OK All queried nameservers responded; no dead/misconfigured/unavailable server was found in the chosen resolution path.
Recursion OK None of the DNS servers listed as authoritative for gtld-servers.net serves recursive queries to the public.
Truncation OK None of the DNS servers listed as authoritative for gtld-servers.net gives a truncated response for NS requests. Clients can successfully perform NS queries over the low-latency UDP protocol, without falling back to much slower TCP.
IPv6 OK The authority declares one or more servers as reachable via IPv6. IPv6-enabled clients can resolve domains of gtld-servers.net natively, without falling back to the compatibility IPv4 protocol.

IPv6 score: 100%

Here is the list of IPv6-enabled servers declared by gtld-servers.net:
  • av4.nstld.com → 2001:500:127::30
  • av2.nstld.com → 2001:500:125::30
  • av3.nstld.com → 2001:500:126::30
  • av1.nstld.com → 2001:500:124::30
DNSCurve No DNScurve is not supported for this zone. To leverage DNSCurve from BuddyNS, delegate gtld-servers.net using secure server names from BuddyNS.

Delegation trace for gtld-servers.net

Notes

The delegation trace below is one of the possible traversals of the delegation tree. Note that:

  • For zones with correct delegation, the same data is obtained regardless of which resolution path is traversed.
  • BuddyNS excludes its own servers from traversals when foreign servers are available.
  • Refresh this page to test with a different traversal path.

Here's the steps BuddyNS took to collect the DNS delegation chain for gtld-servers.net: