DNS report for zone “kink.biz”
Hostmasters for zone kink.biz is: administrator@albanyweb.com , postmaster@kink.bizIP settings (as seen from donald.albanyweb.com)
info
You have 2 nameservers.
info
You have nameservers in several C-Nets, that's good!
Mail settings (as seen from donald.albanyweb.com)
info
You have 2 mailservers.
Zone as seen from “mickey.albanyweb.com” [24.97.26.203]
error
mickey.albanyweb.com is out of sync, it's running a version of the zone with serial 17 when the newest one is 2008020219.
warn
We recommend that you keep your SOA in YYYYMMDDxx-format.
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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
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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 10 minutes is good.
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Your SOA retry value of 10 minutes is good.
warn
A SOA expiry value of 86400 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.
Zone as seen from “donald.albanyweb.com” [199.171.96.5]
info
donald.albanyweb.com is running the latest version of the zone(2008020219).
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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 2008-02-02, and has been updated 20 times on that day.
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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.
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Your nameserver responds authorative for the zone.
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Your SOA refresh value of 10 minutes is good.
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Your SOA retry value of 10 minutes is good.
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Your SOA expiry value of 14 days is good.
warn
A minimum TTL (Time To Live) of 86400 is quite high. RFC2308 recommends a minimum TTL between 1-3 hours.