DNS report for zone “arkansasfirstlady.net”
Hostmaster for zone arkansasfirstlady.net is: hostmaster@pns-1.cdc.nicusa.comIP settings (as seen from pns-2.cdc.nicusa.com)
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You have 2 nameservers.
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You have nameservers in several C-Nets, that's good!
Mail settings (as seen from pns-2.cdc.nicusa.com)
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You don't have any mailservers set up. This is OK if you don't use any mail for the domain.
Zone as seen from “pns-1.cdc.nicusa.com” [206.16.212.64]
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pns-1.cdc.nicusa.com is running the latest version of the zone(2009102050).
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SOA serial seems to follow good standards. We recommend it to be in YYYYMMDDxx-format, which yours appear to be. This would suggest that your zone was last updated at 2009-10-20, and has been updated 51 times on that day.
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This nameserver does not allow zone transfers.
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This nameserver does not support recursion, which is good. Public nameservers should never support recursion.
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Your nameserver doesn't respond to queries via TCP.
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Your nameserver responds authorative for the zone.
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SOA Refresh value of 600 is too low. RFC1912 suggests it should be between 1200 and 43200 seconds. This sets how often slaves should refresh the zone from the master.
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Your SOA retry value of 5 minutes is good.
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A SOA expiry value of 2592000 is quite high. You should consider lowering this to a value inbetween 2 and 4 weeks. This value defines for how long the zone should be valid when the slaves are unable to reach the master.
Zone as seen from “pns-2.cdc.nicusa.com” [63.241.247.11]
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pns-2.cdc.nicusa.com is running the latest version of the zone(2009102050).
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SOA serial seems to follow good standards. We recommend it to be in YYYYMMDDxx-format, which yours appear to be. This would suggest that your zone was last updated at 2009-10-20, and has been updated 51 times on that day.
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This nameserver supports zone transfers. This enables people to fetch a list of all DNS records in your zone. To view the list please click here!
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This nameserver does not support recursion, which is good. Public nameservers should never support recursion.
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Your nameserver responds to queries via TCP.
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Your nameserver responds authorative for the zone.
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SOA Refresh value of 600 is too low. RFC1912 suggests it should be between 1200 and 43200 seconds. This sets how often slaves should refresh the zone from the master.
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Your SOA retry value of 5 minutes is good.
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A SOA expiry value of 2592000 is quite high. You should consider lowering this to a value inbetween 2 and 4 weeks. This value defines for how long the zone should be valid when the slaves are unable to reach the master.