DNS report for zone “katatude.net”
Hostmaster for zone katatude.net is: dns@johncompanies.comIP settings (as seen from ns2c.johncompanies.com)
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You have 2 nameservers.
info
You have nameservers in several C-Nets, that's good!
Mail settings (as seen from ns2c.johncompanies.com)
warn
You have only 1 mailserver. Consider getting a backup one!
Zone as seen from “ns1c.johncompanies.com” [69.55.225.225]
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ns1c.johncompanies.com is running the latest version of the zone(2005092723).
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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 2005-09-27, and has been updated 24 times on that day.
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This nameserver does not allow zone transfers.
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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 15 minutes is good.
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Your SOA retry value of 15 minutes is good.
warn
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 “ns2c.johncompanies.com” [69.55.230.3]
info
ns2c.johncompanies.com is running the latest version of the zone(2005092723).
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 2005-09-27, and has been updated 24 times on that day.
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This nameserver does not allow zone transfers.
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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 15 minutes is good.
info
Your SOA retry value of 15 minutes is good.
warn
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.