DNS report for zone “golfforkids.ca”
Hostmaster for zone golfforkids.ca is: postmaster@webnames.caIP settings (as seen from ns2.webnames.ca)
info
You have 3 nameservers.
info
You have nameservers in several C-Nets, that's good!
Mail settings (as seen from ns2.webnames.ca)
warn
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 “ns3.webnames.ca” [64.34.130.218]
info
ns3.webnames.ca is running the latest version of the zone(442801).
warn
We recommend that you keep your SOA in YYYYMMDDxx-format.
info
This nameserver does not allow zone transfers.
info
This nameserver does not support recursion, which is good. Public nameservers should never support recursion.
info
Your nameserver responds to queries via TCP.
info
Your nameserver responds authorative for the zone.
info
Your SOA refresh value of 180 minutes is good.
warn
A SOA retry value of 10800 is too infrequent, we propose you set this to a value inbetween 120 and 7200 seconds.
warn
A SOA expiry value of 4233600 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 “ns1.webnames.ca” [65.39.140.92]
info
ns1.webnames.ca is running the latest version of the zone(442801).
warn
We recommend that you keep your SOA in YYYYMMDDxx-format.
info
This nameserver does not allow zone transfers.
info
This nameserver does not support recursion, which is good. Public nameservers should never support recursion.
info
Your nameserver responds to queries via TCP.
info
Your nameserver responds authorative for the zone.
info
Your SOA refresh value of 180 minutes is good.
warn
A SOA retry value of 10800 is too infrequent, we propose you set this to a value inbetween 120 and 7200 seconds.
warn
A SOA expiry value of 4233600 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 “ns2.webnames.ca” [64.85.60.137]
error
ns2.webnames.ca is out of sync, it's running a version of the zone with serial 420796 when the newest one is 442801.
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 4207-09-06, and has been updated 1 time on that day.
info
This nameserver does not allow zone transfers.
info
This nameserver does not support recursion, which is good. Public nameservers should never support recursion.
info
Your nameserver responds to queries via TCP.
info
Your nameserver responds authorative for the zone.
info
Your SOA refresh value of 180 minutes is good.
warn
A SOA retry value of 10800 is too infrequent, we propose you set this to a value inbetween 120 and 7200 seconds.
warn
A SOA expiry value of 4233600 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.