DNS report for zone “mccainvspennsylvania.net”
Hostmaster for zone mccainvspennsylvania.net is: hostmaster@democrats.orgIP settings (as seen from ns5.democrats.org)
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You have 5 nameservers.
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You have nameservers in several C-Nets, that's good!
Mail settings (as seen from ns5.democrats.org)
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You have only 1 mailserver. Consider getting a backup one!
Zone as seen from “ns1.democrats.org” [208.69.4.66]
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ns1.democrats.org is running the latest version of the zone(2008082200).
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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 2008-08-22, and has been updated 1 time 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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SOA Refresh value of 900 is too low. RFC1912 suggests it should be between 1200 and 43200 seconds. This sets how often slaves should refresh the zone from the master.
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Your SOA retry value of 15 minutes is good.
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A SOA expiry value of 691200 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.
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A minimum TTL (Time To Live) of 21600 is quite high. RFC2308 recommends a minimum TTL between 1-3 hours.
Zone as seen from “ns2.democrats.org” [208.69.4.67]
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ns2.democrats.org is running the latest version of the zone(2008082200).
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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 2008-08-22, and has been updated 1 time 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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SOA Refresh value of 900 is too low. RFC1912 suggests it should be between 1200 and 43200 seconds. This sets how often slaves should refresh the zone from the master.
info
Your SOA retry value of 15 minutes is good.
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A SOA expiry value of 691200 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.
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A minimum TTL (Time To Live) of 21600 is quite high. RFC2308 recommends a minimum TTL between 1-3 hours.
Zone as seen from “ns3.democrats.org” [208.69.4.64]
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ns3.democrats.org is running the latest version of the zone(2008082200).
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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 2008-08-22, and has been updated 1 time 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.
info
Your nameserver responds to queries via TCP.
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Your nameserver responds authorative for the zone.
warn
SOA Refresh value of 900 is too low. RFC1912 suggests it should be between 1200 and 43200 seconds. This sets how often slaves should refresh the zone from the master.
info
Your SOA retry value of 15 minutes is good.
warn
A SOA expiry value of 691200 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.
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A minimum TTL (Time To Live) of 21600 is quite high. RFC2308 recommends a minimum TTL between 1-3 hours.
Zone as seen from “ns4.democrats.org” [208.69.4.47]
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ns4.democrats.org is running the latest version of the zone(2008082200).
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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 2008-08-22, and has been updated 1 time 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.
warn
SOA Refresh value of 900 is too low. RFC1912 suggests it should be between 1200 and 43200 seconds. This sets how often slaves should refresh the zone from the master.
info
Your SOA retry value of 15 minutes is good.
warn
A SOA expiry value of 691200 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.
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A minimum TTL (Time To Live) of 21600 is quite high. RFC2308 recommends a minimum TTL between 1-3 hours.
Zone as seen from “ns5.democrats.org” [208.69.4.48]
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ns5.democrats.org is running the latest version of the zone(2008082200).
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 2008-08-22, and has been updated 1 time 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.
info
Your nameserver responds to queries via TCP.
info
Your nameserver responds authorative for the zone.
warn
SOA Refresh value of 900 is too low. RFC1912 suggests it should be between 1200 and 43200 seconds. This sets how often slaves should refresh the zone from the master.
info
Your SOA retry value of 15 minutes is good.
warn
A SOA expiry value of 691200 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 21600 is quite high. RFC2308 recommends a minimum TTL between 1-3 hours.