in-addr checking tools

Hi,

looking at the revcheck output - I have a similar script I
normally use to check the "forward" zones which can also be used
for the "reverse" zones.  It tries to keep the number of
warnings/errors minimal (the same error is usually not reported
more than once).  Running the script on a couple of the zones
shown in Geert Jan's sample output produces:

ravn% ./gethosts 212.242.193.in-addr.arpa
Getting info about 212.242.193.in-addr.arpa.
Lame delegation to: nic.swip.net.
Lame delegation to: frida.kar.fdata.se.
Transfer of zone 212.242.193.in-addr.arpa failed

ravn% ./gethosts 94.242.193.in-addr.arpa
Getting info about 94.242.193.in-addr.arpa.
Bad name server: ns3.eu.net.
Sorting addresses...
ravn%

This script only (currently) checks for the most rudimentary
errors, mainly lame delegations, dead name servers etc.

A copy of the Perl script (which requires dig version 2.0) can be
found in

   ftp://aun.uninett.no/pub/misc/gethosts

I'm not proposing this as a replacement, but if you are
overwhelmed by the errors produced with Geert Jan's script you
could fix the lame delegations detected by my script first and
then start looking at the more detailed error report (which will
be smaller) from Geert Jan's script.


Regards,

- Håvard