DNS report for zone “brokenpromisessanctuary.org”
Hostmaster for zone brokenpromisessanctuary.org is: admin@vhostdns2.comIP settings (as seen from ns2.vhostdns2.com)
info
You have 2 nameservers.
info
You have nameservers in several C-Nets, that's good!
Mail settings (as seen from ns2.vhostdns2.com)
warn
You have more than 7 mailservers, this is... weird. There's nothing wrong with having it, but it might be worth taking a look at since it's not that common.
Zone as seen from “ns1.vhostdns2.com” [67.228.57.68]
info
ns1.vhostdns2.com is running the latest version of the zone(2002101511).
info
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 2002-10-15, and has been updated 12 times on that day.
info
This nameserver does not allow zone transfers.
error
Your nameserver supports recursion. This is really bad to have activated on public nameservers since they can then be used for amplification of Denial Of Service attacks! You can find more information about it here: http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/DNS-recursion033006.pdf
info
Your nameserver responds to queries via TCP.
info
Your nameserver responds authorative for the zone.
info
Your SOA refresh value of 10 minutes is good.
info
Your SOA retry value of 10 minutes is good.
warn
A SOA expiry value of 86400 is too low. This value denotes for how long the zone is valid when the master is down. RFC1912 suggests it should be between 2 and 4 weeks.
Zone as seen from “nt-221.vhostdns5.com”
error
Host is down!
Zone as seen from “nt-220.vhostdns5.com”
error
Host is down!
Zone as seen from “ns2.vhostdns2.com” [67.228.131.174]
info
ns2.vhostdns2.com is running the latest version of the zone(2002101511).
info
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 2002-10-15, and has been updated 12 times on that day.
info
This nameserver does not allow zone transfers.
error
Your nameserver supports recursion. This is really bad to have activated on public nameservers since they can then be used for amplification of Denial Of Service attacks! You can find more information about it here: http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/DNS-recursion033006.pdf
info
Your nameserver responds to queries via TCP.
info
Your nameserver responds authorative for the zone.
info
Your SOA refresh value of 10 minutes is good.
info
Your SOA retry value of 10 minutes is good.
warn
A SOA expiry value of 86400 is too low. This value denotes for how long the zone is valid when the master is down. RFC1912 suggests it should be between 2 and 4 weeks.