DNS report for zone “ofimart.net”
Hostmaster for zone ofimart.net is: hostmaster@ofimart.netIP settings (as seen from ns7.hosthost.co.uk)
info
You have 2 nameservers.
info
You have nameservers in several C-Nets, that's good!
Mail settings (as seen from ns7.hosthost.co.uk)
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You have 2 mailservers.
Zone as seen from “ns6.hosthost.co.uk” [193.227.106.77]
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ns6.hosthost.co.uk is running the latest version of the zone(2009051400).
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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 2009-05-14, and has been updated 1 time 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
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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 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 “ns7.hosthost.co.uk” [193.227.106.75]
info
ns7.hosthost.co.uk is running the latest version of the zone(2009051400).
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 2009-05-14, 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 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.