DNS report for zone brandspankingnew.net

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• Category Status Test Name Information
• NS
  • 
  • NS records from
    your nameservers

  • NS records got from your nameservers are:

    
    

    ns1.hans.hosteurope.de [217.115.143.140]
    ns2.hans.hosteurope.de [80.237.128.10]
    

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  • Zone transfers

  • All of your nameservers disallows zone transfers (AXFR). This is good.

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  • Recursive Queries

  • All of your nameservers disallows recursive queries. This is good.

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  • Mismatched NS records

  • OK. The NS records at all your nameservers are identical.

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  • DNS servers responded

  • Good. All nameservers listed at the parent server responded.

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  • Multiple Nameservers

  • OK. You have multiple nameservers. In most cases 2 are enough, however, RFC2182 section 5 states that you must have at least 3 nameservers, and no more than 7.

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  • Nameservers are lame

  • OK. All the nameservers listed at the parent servers answer authoritatively for your domain.

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  • Domain CNAMES

  • OK. RFC1912 2.4 and RFC2181 10.3 state that there should be no CNAMEs if an NS (or any other)
    record is present.

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  • Different subnets

  • OK. Looks like you have nameservers on different subnets!

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  • IPs of nameservers
    are public

  • Ok. Looks like the IP addresses of your nameservers are public. This is a good thing because it will prevent DNS delays and other problems like

• • 
  • DNS servers allow
    TCP connection

  • OK. Seems all your DNS servers allow TCP connections. This is a good thing and useful even if UDP connections are used by default.

• SOA
  • 
  • SOA record

  • The SOA record is:
    Primary nameserver: ns1.hans.hosteurope.de
    Hostmaster E-mail address: hostmaster@brandspankingnew.net
    Serial #: 2009112315
    Refresh: 16384
    Retry: 2048
    Expire:1048576
    Default TTL: 2560

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  • NSs have same SOA
    serial

  • OK. All your nameservers agree that your SOA serial number is 2009112315

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  • SOA MNAME entry

  • OK. ns1.hans.hosteurope.de That server is listed at the parent servers.

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  • SOA Serial

  • Your SOA serial number is: 2009112315. Your SOA serial can pretty much be whatever you want, but most people prefer to have it in YYYYMMDD00-99 format.

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  • SOA REFRESH

  • OK. Your SOA REFRESH interval is: 16384. That is OK

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  • SOA RETRY

  • OK. Your SOA RETRY value is: 600. Looks ok.

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  • SOA EXPIRE

  • WARN. Your SOA EXPIRE interval is: 1048576. We recommend that you raise it to be within the 1209600 to 2419200 range. (2 to 4 weeks)

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  • SOA MINIMUM

  • WARN. Your SOA MINIMUM interval is: 2560. We recommend that you raise it to be within the 3600 to 10800 range. (1 to 3 hours)

• MX
  • 
  • MX Records

  • Your MX records that were reported by your nameservers are:

    
    

    50 mx0.brandspankingnew.net
    

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  • MX is not IP

  • OK. All of your MX records are host names.

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  • Multiple MX

  • WARN. You have one MX-record. You should look into getting a backup mailserver for increased redundancy.

• WWW
  • 
  • WWW Record

  • Your www.brandspankingnew.net record is:
    www.brandspankingnew.net [87.230.43.155]
    

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  • IPs are public

  • OK. All of your WWW IPs appear to be public IPs.

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  • WWW CNAME

  • OK. No CNAME