DNS report for zone “monsterrecords.ca”
Hostmaster for zone monsterrecords.ca is: sysadmin@elitehosts.comIP settings (as seen from ns1.spark72.com)
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You have 2 nameservers.
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You have nameservers in several C-Nets, that's good!
Mail settings (as seen from ns1.spark72.com)
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You have 4 mailservers.
Zone as seen from “ns2.spark72.com” [209.67.52.113]
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ns2.spark72.com is running the latest version of the zone(2006120500).
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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 2006-12-05, 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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Your SOA refresh value of 120 minutes is good.
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Your SOA retry value of 120 minutes is good.
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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.
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A minimum TTL (Time To Live) of 86400 is quite high. RFC2308 recommends a minimum TTL between 1-3 hours.
Zone as seen from “ns1.spark72.com” [209.67.63.64]
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ns1.spark72.com is running the latest version of the zone(2006120500).
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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 2006-12-05, 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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Your SOA refresh value of 120 minutes is good.
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Your SOA retry value of 120 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.
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A minimum TTL (Time To Live) of 86400 is quite high. RFC2308 recommends a minimum TTL between 1-3 hours.