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Assume identical errors on every DNS is a tool artifact #266

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run namebench on 205.171.3.25, 205.171.3.65, 205.171.2.65, 205.171.3.25, 
74.82.42.42
2. Look at the resulting messages, most of which are identical over every 
tested server.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The output is simply incredibly noisy.  There are dozens of "errors" per 
server, and most of them are exactly the same for every server.

The suggestion is this: if namebench thinks that the result for site X "may be 
incorrect," and yet every DNS server is reporting the same result, then it's 
probably namebench's problem, not the servers'.  

You could add an option checkbox either to suppress or reveal this group of 
"errors," whichever you think is the most meaningful result.  (I'd vote for 
suppression by default. That way, we could much more easily see how and to what 
extent the servers actually DIFFER, assuming they do.  Also, the developers 
could see what tests consistently fail, and either correct or replace them.)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest (1.3.1) on Mac OS X 10.8.5

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by chumgrin...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2014 at 11:21