DNS report for zone “hotelcitypalace.in”
Hostmaster for zone hotelcitypalace.in is: hostmaster@hotelcitypalace.inIP settings (as seen from ns2.iserverplanet.com)
info
You have 2 nameservers.
info
You have nameservers in several C-Nets, that's good!
Mail settings (as seen from ns2.iserverplanet.com)
warn
You have only 1 mailserver. Consider getting a backup one!
Zone as seen from “ns1.iserverplanet.com” [74.53.42.195]
error
ns1.iserverplanet.com is out of sync, it's running a version of the zone with serial 2009061411 when the newest one is 2009111811.
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 2009-06-14, 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 15 minutes is good.
info
Your SOA retry value of 15 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.
warn
A minimum TTL (Time To Live) of 14400 is quite high. RFC2308 recommends a minimum TTL between 1-3 hours.
Zone as seen from “ns2.iserverplanet.com” [74.53.91.170]
info
ns2.iserverplanet.com is running the latest version of the zone(2009111811).
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 2009-11-18, 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 15 minutes is good.
info
Your SOA retry value of 15 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.
warn
A minimum TTL (Time To Live) of 14400 is quite high. RFC2308 recommends a minimum TTL between 1-3 hours.