DNS report for zone “elecbyte.net”
Hostmaster for zone elecbyte.net is: hostmaster@monkey.orgIP settings (as seen from ns2.monkey.org)
info
You have 2 nameservers.
info
You have nameservers in several C-Nets, that's good!
Mail settings (as seen from ns2.monkey.org)
info
You have 2 mailservers.
Zone as seen from “ns1.monkey.org” [75.102.5.21]
info
ns1.monkey.org is running the latest version of the zone(9703212).
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 9703-02-12, and has been updated 1 time 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
warn
Your nameserver doesn't respond to queries via TCP.
info
Your nameserver responds authorative for the zone.
info
Your SOA refresh value of 240 minutes is good.
warn
A SOA retry value of 14400 is too infrequent, we propose you set this to a value inbetween 120 and 7200 seconds.
info
Your SOA expiry value of 28 days is good.
warn
A minimum TTL (Time To Live) of 300 is too low. RFC2308 recommends a minimum TTL between 1-3 hours.
Zone as seen from “ns2.monkey.org” [74.126.25.219]
info
ns2.monkey.org is running the latest version of the zone(9703212).
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 9703-02-12, and has been updated 1 time 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
info
Your nameserver responds to queries via TCP.
info
Your nameserver responds authorative for the zone.
info
Your SOA refresh value of 240 minutes is good.
warn
A SOA retry value of 14400 is too infrequent, we propose you set this to a value inbetween 120 and 7200 seconds.
info
Your SOA expiry value of 28 days is good.
warn
A minimum TTL (Time To Live) of 300 is too low. RFC2308 recommends a minimum TTL between 1-3 hours.