[ILUG] DNS

James Raftery james-ilug at now.ie
Thu Dec 14 10:11:27 GMT 2000


On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:53:23PM -0000, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> I haven't seen this script, but I assume that it pulls
> the email addresses from the SOAs.  What are the chances
> that these are correct?

It's lurking the in BIND 8's contrib tarball. Yes, it uses the SOA MNAME
and will try postmaster@<domain of lame namserver> if it can't get
anything useful from the SOA.

> MS-DNS on NT has a habit of putting
> administrator.domain.com as the email address and then
> how many admins remember to create an administrator at domain.com
> alias?

Not many I'd guess. That should be easy enough to find out. I'll knock
together a little bit of Perl...

james




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