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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   Nameserver serving outdated data.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 qmail.jp

Test Result Notes
Is Zone OK The indicated domain qmail.jp is a zone: authority and nameserver data is announced for it. These are the authority parameters for zone qmail.jp:
Master
ns1.parkingcrew.net.
Administrator
hostmaster@qmail.jp
Version serial
1752883000
Slave refresh
28800
Slave retry
7200
Slave expiry
604800
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 qmail.jp correctly serves the same zone version, so client queries will get the same response regardless of the server they reach. Here's the summary:
  • ns2.parkingcrew.net → #1752883000
  • ns1.parkingcrew.net → #1752883000
Number of servers WARNING qmail.jp delegates its DNS to 2 servers only. This is the bare minimum required in DNS, and exposes to significant reliability issues. RFC 2182 advocates a minimum of 3 nameservers. BuddyNS recommends 4 or 5, and most likely this added reliability will come at no cost. Check out BuddyNS.
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 qmail.jp serves recursive queries to the public.
Truncation OK None of the DNS servers listed as authoritative for qmail.jp 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 WARNING None of the servers serving qmail.jp's DNS is reachable via IPv6. IPv6-enabled clients qmail.jp will need to revert to compatibility IPv4 protocol for every look up of services of qmail.jp. A growing number a IPv6-only clients will be unable to perform such look ups.

IPv6 score: 0%

DNSCurve No DNScurve is not supported for this zone. To leverage DNSCurve from BuddyNS, delegate qmail.jp using secure server names from BuddyNS.

Delegation trace for qmail.jp

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 qmail.jp: