Hello,
The other day I saw one of BitFolk's IP addresses in a log file and
wondered which host that was, so I did a reverse lookup and got:
2001-ba8-1f1-f284-0-0-0-2.autov6rev.bitfolk.space
which was useless to me.
It's quick to look this up and fix it of course, but I wondered how many
other such addresses I had forgotten to take care of the reverse DNS
for.
In order to answer that question, automatically and in bulk, I wrote
this tool:
https://github.com/grifferz/ptrcheck-rs
The answer, for
bitfolk.com, was 1 A record and 4 AAAA records.
I ran it against every customer domain on BitFolk's secondary service
and found that 20.1% of customers domains contain host records with no
PTR.
When I added:
--badre 'autov6rev'
to catch unset BitFolk IPv6 reverse DNS, that percentage went up to
26.5% of customer zones. This is not a shaming. 😀 All but one of my own
zones had at least one broken/missing PTR.
I will make a few more improvements and then turn it into a Nagios check
plugin available on request.
Thanks,
Andy
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https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting