FYIs are stable identifiers for a series of "For Your Information" documents. An FYI consists of a single RFC on general interest topics relating to the Internet. The collection may also be empty. The FYI subseries was retired in 2011.
RFC 1713: FYI 27: Tools for DNS debugging
Informational
- A. Romao
- November 1994
- Legacy publication
Abstract
Although widely used (and most of the times unnoticed), DNS (Domain Name System) is too much overlooked, in the sense that people, especially administrators, tend to ignore possible anomalies as long as applications that need name-to-address mapping continue to work. This document presents some tools available for domain administrators to detect and correct those anomalies. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
Abstract
Although widely used (and most of the times unnoticed), DNS (Domain Name System) is too much overlooked, in the sense that people, especially administrators, tend to ignore possible anomalies as long as applications that need name-to-address mapping continue to work. This document presents some tools available for domain administrators to detect and correct those anomalies. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.