NAME

DESCRIPTION

• 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.

METHODS

->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.

SEE ALSO