Search Again: Re: From: Len Conrad Date: Monday, July 14, 2003 Time: 5:32:40 pm >So those of use who use dnsreports.com are "mass market" eh? I did not say all, but you know very well tons of people who use it don't have clue about DNS. There is definitely a segment, minority? majority? of DNSreport users who don't have clue about how DNS works, and that's why such a tool has to be very careful about giving out advice, since inexperienced DNS admins will spend a lot of time trying to "fix" these silly "warnings". >I guess the only way we cannot be "mass market" is to plonk down big $$ >for DNS Expert...which doesn't exist for OS X anyway. I didn't say that. There's nothing wrong with using DNSReports, but like any GUI tool, the real issues are behind the GUI, and when the GUI tool gives misleading advice that inexperienced DNS admins don't know how to handle, it's counter-productive. btw, I have complaints about the texts of the error reports and warnings in DNSExpert which could use quite a bit of re-work to reduce the amount interpretation or guesswork as to what the warnings and errors mean. >I guarantee you those who use dnsreports.com as a tool to help keep their >dns true have far better configured zones then the vast majority who do not. No doubt using something is better than nothing. But that doesn't absolve the bogus "warnings", "academic" issues, the splitting of frog hairs that send people elsewhere (like this and other mailing lists) to figure out what's going on, eg, the very comment that started this thread. What's great about DNS is that a DNS box can be completely screwed up and the damage is in nearly all cases limited to only that box. However, in another key plumbing area that suffers from "mass market" admins, an SMTP server can be screwed up (open relay, open proxy) and can cause tons of damage as a conduit for mail abuse of other peoples SMTP boxes. Len

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