It resolves to an address of my ISP (not to my own DNS server) interesingly this address is not one of the DNS servers that Ziply (wholesail networks) generally publishes or we use as upstream resolvers (i missed that it wasn't a channels endpoint, thanks for pointing that out) and this server does not seem to respond on port 53.
so i can only guess whatever this A record and diag check does, it is not working correctly, and is pointing to something that isn't a resolver. This doesn't seem to be causing any DNS issues so i won't worry about it.
alexb@SYN02:~$ sudo ping resolver-check.u.channelsdvr.net
Password:
PING resolver-check.u.channelsdvr.net (107.191.238.157) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from resolver1-bothwaxb.dns.as20055.net (107.191.238.157): icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=0.693 ms
64 bytes from resolver1-bothwaxb.dns.as20055.net (107.191.238.157): icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=0.548 ms
64 bytes from resolver1-bothwaxb.dns.as20055.net (107.191.238.157): icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=0.569 ms
64 bytes from resolver1-bothwaxb.dns.as20055.net (107.191.238.157): icmp_seq=4 ttl=59 time=0.550 ms
64 bytes from resolver1-bothwaxb.dns.as20055.net (107.191.238.157): icmp_seq=5 ttl=59 time=0.560 ms