[AusNOG] Speaking of DNS...

[Jason Reid]

Centralops.net is handy, though obviously it would be better if you could
select from a list of DNS...

/relurks...

On Wednesday, 12 February 2014, Mark Foster <blakjak at blakjak.net> wrote:

> ... what's the done method of troubleshooting DNS problems that only
> affect certain network(s), now that open resolvers are (hopefully) a thing
> of the past?
>
> I have semi-regularly struggled with troubleshooting email delivery
> problems (for example), due to an inability to see what ISP X sees as my MX
> record.
>
> Onceuponatime I could just query their DNS servers myself. Now it seems I
> either have to hope that their helpdesk understand what an MX record
> actually is, or try to find a shell account on a machine within their
> network to tinker with...
>
> I didn't realise that DNS was something that was a candidate for a network
> of 'looking-glass' systems, but perhaps it is... Need a nice, rate-limited,
> hard-to-abuse web-based DNS lookup tool to become commonly available,
> perhaps?
>
> Cheers
> Mark.
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Jason Reid
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