CONSISTENCY06: SOA MNAME consistency

Test case identifier

CONSISTENCY06

Objective

All authoritative name servers must serve the same SOA record (section 4.2.1) of RFC 1034 for the tested domain. As per section 3.3.13 of RFC 1035 the MNAME field in the SOA RDATA refers to the name of "the name server that was the original or primary source of data for this zone". Inconsistency in MNAME of the domain might result in operational failures for applications that uses MNAME.

Scope

It is assumed that Child Zone is also tested by Connectivity01. This test case will set DEBUG level on messages for non-responsive name servers.

Inputs

  • "Child Zone" - The domain name to be tested.

Ordered description of steps to be taken to execute the test case

  1. Obtain the set of name server IPs for the Child Zone from Method4 and Method5 ("Name Server IP").

  2. Create an SOA query for Child Zone apex.

  3. For each name server in Name Server IP do:

    1. Send the query to name server.
    2. If the name server does not respond with a DNS response, emit NO_RESPONSE for that name server and go to next server.
    3. If the DNS response does not include a SOA record in the answer section then emit NO_RESPONSE_SOA_QUERY for that server and go to next server.
    4. Retrieve the MNAME field from the SOA RR from the DNS response and save that to compare it with the MNAME from the other name servers.

  4. Compare the MNAME fields retrieved from all name servers.

  5. If at least one name server has responded with a SOA record and the MNAME is identical in all SOA records retrieved, emit ONE_SOA_MNAME.

  6. If MNAME is not identical in all SOA records retrieved, emit MULTIPLE_SOA_MNAMES.

Outcome(s)

The outcome of this Test Case is "fail" if there is at least one message with the severity level ERROR or CRITICAL.

The outcome of this Test Case is "warning" if there is at least one message with the severity level WARNING, but no message with severity level ERROR or CRITICAL.

In other cases the outcome of this Test Case is "pass".

MessageDefault severity level (if message is emitted)
NO_RESPONSEDEBUG
NO_RESPONSE_SOA_QUERYDEBUG
ONE_SOA_MNAMEINFO
MULTIPLE_SOA_MNAMESNOTICE

Special procedural requirements

If either IPv4 or IPv6 transport is disabled, ignore the evaluation of the result of any test using this transport protocol. Log a message reporting on the ignored result.

Intercase dependencies

None