Zone Check

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The ZoneCheck program (freely available here for download) performs several tests on your zone (ie: domain) to ensure that it is correctly configured and can be safely delegated, providing a certain quality to your domain (see the benefit section).

For detailed information on how to fill this form see the help section.

If you need to perform the ZoneCheck operation for several domains, you may find the batch form more convenient.

The time required to completely verify a zone can take from 30 seconds up to 5 minutes depending on the network speed of the server being accessed. If it takes more than a minute it generally means we are encountering problems accessing your nameservers (configuration error, firewall, ...) and are waiting for timeout.

Zone information

Zone
Primary			IPs
Secondary			IPs
Secondary			IPs
Secondary			IPs
Secondary			IPs
Secondary			IPs
Secondary			IPs
Secondary			IPs

Options

Benefit

Among the tests performed you can find checking for:

authoritative nameserver for your zone, ensuring you will be able to use your domain from outside your network.
correct list of secondary nameservers, so that if your primary nameserver is temporarily unreachable, you will still be visible on the internet;
check for mail delivery, so that you don't become the prey of spammers and become blacklisted

Help

Form

Zone Information
Zone	The domain (ie: zone) that should be tested (ie: the domain name that you want to register).
Primary	The nameserver that is considered as primary (the one in the SOA record if it is public).
Secondary	The secondary nameservers (all the NS records associated with the zone, except for the one listed above).
IPs	List of IP addresses associated with the nameserver. they are only required if they can't be resolved (ie: they are in the zone that you want to register). if you have several addresses you must use a space or a comma as the separator. the form accepts IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
Options: Output
zone summary	Includes a summary about the zone and its nameservers in the generated report
test name	Includes the name of the test that has been performed when reporting errors
explanations	Includes an explanation (when the test failed) about the purpose of the test and why you should fix it.
details	Includes details (when the test failed) about the culprit elements.
progress bar	Display information about the test progression using a a progress bar (require javascript and Mozilla or IE5+ for correct rendering).
description	Give a short description of the test when it is performed.
nothing	Don't display information about the test progression.
report	Select the type of generated report you want.
format	Select the format in which you want the report (HTML or plain text).
language	Select the language that you want the report generated in.
Options: Error report
default error	Errors are reported with the default severity associated with them.
all fatals	All errors are considered fatals.
all warnings	All errors are considered warnings.
don't stop on fatal	Keep going even after encountering a fatal error (this could lead to some unexpected results).
report ok	Report test that passed.
Options: Extra tests performed
mail delivery	Perform extra checking on mail delivery for typical mail accounts (hostmaster, postmaster, ...) associated with domain names.
zone transfer	Perform additional tests on the zone retrieved after a zone transfer.
RIR databases	Check that IP addresses used are registered in the RIR databases
Options: Transport layer
IPv4, IPv6	Select the routing layer (if none are selected it will default to IPv4 and IPv6).
STD, UDP, TCP	Select the transport layer you want for interrogating your nameservers.

Results

the word generic means that the error is eitheir unrelated or present on all nameservers,
when an error is between [brackets], this means that the test failed for external reasons. The reasons are displayed next to it.

Release: $Name: ZC-2_0_3 $
Last modified: Thu Feb 19 14:44:11 CET 2004

Output
	zone summary
	test name	explanations	details
	progress bar	description	nothing
	report	format	language

Error report
	default error	all fatals	all warnings
	don't stop on fatal	fatal only	report ok
	profile

Extra tests performed
	mail delivery	zone transfer	RIR databases

Transport layer
	IPv4	IPv6
	STD	UDP	TCP