Pierre-Olivier Mercier
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Add individual reference pages for all domain health checkers (EN/FR), update the homepage feature descriptions in both languages to highlight monitoring, notifications, and domain availability checks.
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| date | author | title | description | weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-11T09:00:00+02:00 | nemunaire | Legacy records | Scans a zone for DNS record types deprecated by the IETF and reports each one with its RFC reference and a migration suggestion. | 330 |
The Legacy DNS record types checker scans a zone for record types the IETF has deprecated, and reports every occurrence with the relevant RFC reference and a concrete migration suggestion. Deprecated types clutter a zone and, in a few cases, are silently ignored by modern resolvers — so cleaning them up keeps the zone both tidy and unambiguous.
This is a zone-level checker: it walks every service in the working zone in a single pass and consolidates findings by record type, so the report shows one picture rather than one result per record.
What it checks
A single rule, legacy_records, inspects each orphan record body for a deprecated type and groups the findings by severity. The default rule status is critical (the worst severity present bubbles to the top of the report).
| Severity | Record types | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | KEY, SIG, NXT |
RFC 3755: superseded by DNSKEY / RRSIG / NSEC; modern validators ignore them. |
| Warning | SPF, A6, MD, MF |
RFC 7208 / RFC 6563 / RFC 973: replaced by TXT, AAAA, MX. |
| Info | WKS, MB, MG, MR, MINFO, NULL, GPOS, NSAP, NSAP-PTR, X25, ISDN, RT, ATMA, EID, NIMLOC, SINK, NINFO, RKEY |
Experimental or historical (RFC 1035, 1183, 1706, 1712…); safe to delete. |
For each detected type the report names every owner where it appears, the RFC reason, the suggested replacement, and a concrete "how to fix" instruction. A clean zone produces a single OK state with the scan count; parse errors encountered during the scan are surfaced in a separate "skipped" section so a silent skip never masquerades as a clean pass.
{{% notice style="info" title="The SPF record type, not the SPF policy" %}}
The SPF record type (RFC 4408) was deprecated by RFC 7208 in favour of publishing the SPF policy in a TXT record. This checker flags the obsolete SPF record type, not your SPF policy itself — which remains valid and necessary when published as a TXT record.
{{% /notice %}}
Options
This checker has no user-tunable options. The domain name and zone content are filled in automatically.
In happyDomain
Enable this checker on the domain from the {{< relref "/pages/checks" >}} view; it runs over the whole zone in a single pass and needs no configuration. Use its findings as a clean-up checklist: each card tells you which record type to remove and what, if anything, to publish instead.