DNS report for zone “carmelcdc.org”
Hostmaster for zone carmelcdc.org is: rmortland@mbconsultinggroup.comIP settings (as seen from ns9.lunarpages.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 ns9.lunarpages.com)
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You have 2 mailservers.
Zone as seen from “ns8.lunarpages.com” [216.227.211.180]
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ns8.lunarpages.com is running the latest version of the zone(1250616167).
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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 1250-06-16, and has been updated 168 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!
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
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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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Your SOA refresh value of 60 minutes is good.
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Your SOA retry value of 60 minutes is good.
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A SOA expiry value of 604800 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 “ns9.lunarpages.com” [216.227.220.237]
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ns9.lunarpages.com is running the latest version of the zone(1250616167).
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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 1250-06-16, and has been updated 168 times on that day.
warn
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!
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
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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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Your SOA refresh value of 60 minutes is good.
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Your SOA retry value of 60 minutes is good.
warn
A SOA expiry value of 604800 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.