Survey of EDNS non-compliant domains from AFRINIC reverse DNS and secondary DNS zones

A survey of EDNS compliant DNS servers in Africa.

Survey consits of two parts:

• EDNS compliancy for AFRINIC reverse DNS servers for prefixes delegated to members
• EDNS compliancy for ccTLD (Country Code Top Level Domain) in Africa

Results expected:

• AfriNIC:
  • Name Servers Ip capabilities
  • Name Servers eDNS Compliance

Below is the list of test used for eDNS compliance:

• dns_plain
• edns_plain
• edns_unknw
• edns_unknwopt
• edns_unknwflag
• edns_dnssec
• edns_trunc
• edns_unknwveropt
• edns_tcp

To run the survey, please follow hte steps below:

• Copy .db.conf.sample to .db.conf. (keep in the home dir)
• Populate .db.conf with the database credentials & details
• Load the db.sql to create the needed tables
• Execute the main.py script to perform survey and populate the database
• Execute the ns_main.py script to perform survey on ccTLDs and populate the database

To run the survey on a specific list of zones, please follow hte steps below:

• Prepare your input file with the list of zones (one on each line with no quotes)
• Change firectory to scripts
• Execute the script usung the below syntax

python3 zone_ns_processing.py --file /path/to/infile

• The result will be in csv files with the below names:
  • YYYY-MM-DD_zones_ns_list.csv
  • YYYY-MM-DD_ns_edns_compliance_results.csv

To be added later when ready :)

• To launch the webserver to run the below command:

python3 manage.py runserver ip-address:port

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