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DNSCheck::Test::SOA(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation DNSCheck::Test::SOA(3)

DNSCheck::Test::SOA - Test SOA record

Test the zone SOA record. The following tests are made:
  • The SOA record must exist.
  • Only ONE SOA record may exist.
  • SOA MNAME must exist as a valid hostname.
  • SOA MNAME does not have to be in the list of nameservers.
  • SOA MNAME does not have to be reachable.
  • SOA MNAME must be authoritative for the zone.
  • SOA RNAME must have a valid syntax .
  • SOA RNAME address should be deliverable.
  • SOA TTL should be at least 1 hour.
  • SOA 'refresh' should be at least 4 hours.
  • SOA 'retry' should be lower than SOA 'refresh'.
  • SOA 'retry' shoule be at least 1 hour.
  • SOA 'expire' should be at least 7 days.
  • SOA 'expire' should be at least 7 times SOA 'refresh'.
  • SOA 'minimum' should be less than 1 day.

->test($zonename)
Runs all the tests specified above.
->test_soa_existence($zonename)
Tests that one and only one SOA record exists.
->test_soa_mname($soapacket, $zonename)
Runs the MNAME-related tests.

$soapacket must be a Net::DNS::RR::SOA object suitably filled in.

->test_soa_rname($soapacket, $zonename)
Runs the RNAME-related tests.
->test_soa_values($soapacket, $zonename)
Runs the tests checking the values in the given SOA record.

DNSCheck, DNSCheck::Logger, DNSCheck::Test::Host, DNSCheck::Test::Mail
2010-06-29 perl v5.32.1

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