[dns-wg] Re: DNS lameness notifications

Re Anand,

anandb at ripe.net (Anand Buddhdev) wrote:

> > The background is that I got notifications ("Unable to resolve nameserver ") 
> > which are most probably wrong, unless the resolving algorithm is very 
> > delicate... 
> 
> We are aware that around 1% of the servers we have in our list did not
> resolve to addresses, which resulted in these false positives. We are
> taking steps to ensure that we eliminate as many of these as possible in
> future probes.

Actually, I personally would be more interested in more detailed error
messages, especially in the case of those false positives. We dream of
our stuff being always resolvable...

Yours,
	Elmar.

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