DNS report for zone “christiansfacetoface.net”
Hostmaster for zone christiansfacetoface.net is: ebutkows@bigpond.net.auIP settings (as seen from dns2.domaincentral.net.au)
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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 dns2.domaincentral.net.au)
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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 “dns1.domaincentral.net.au” [202.174.84.209]
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dns1.domaincentral.net.au is running the latest version of the zone(1209369569).
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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 1209-03-06, and has been updated 9570 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 333 minutes is good.
warn
A SOA retry value of 20000 is too infrequent, we propose you set this to a value inbetween 120 and 7200 seconds.
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A SOA expiry value of 3600000 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 “dns2.domaincentral.net.au” [202.174.84.210]
info
dns2.domaincentral.net.au is running the latest version of the zone(1209369569).
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 1209-03-06, and has been updated 9570 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!
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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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Your SOA refresh value of 333 minutes is good.
warn
A SOA retry value of 20000 is too infrequent, we propose you set this to a value inbetween 120 and 7200 seconds.
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A SOA expiry value of 3600000 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.