Requesting feedback for a considered DNS test

Antonio Querubin tony at lava.net
Sun May 2 18:16:18 CEST 2010


On Sun, 2 May 2010, Mohacsi Janos wrote:

>> http://www.mrp.net/cgi-bin/ipv6-status.cgi
>
> This script can be a good attempt, but more inteligence shuld be put in it:
>
> - for a HTTP test it reports about ipv6.$domain - for my test case it exists, 
> but completly different from www.$domain
>
> - DNS test complaining about the server not inside the domain - I think it 
> should not be a problem
>
> - for ntp we are using time(number) not ntp name.
>
> - xmpp is also exist, but in a completly different name

I'd agree on all but the first.  Regarding the http test, I'm not sure how 
even a technically smart user could guess what the other domain might be.

Antonio Querubin
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e-mail/xmpp:  tony at lava.net


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