DNS report for zone “oxfordinternetinstitute.net”
Hostmaster for zone oxfordinternetinstitute.net is: hostmaster@ox.ac.ukIP settings (as seen from dns2.ox.ac.uk)
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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 dns2.ox.ac.uk)
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You don't have any mailservers set up. This is OK if you don't use any mail for the domain.
Zone as seen from “dns0.ox.ac.uk” [129.67.1.190]
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dns0.ox.ac.uk is running the latest version of the zone(2007042580).
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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 2007-04-25, and has been updated 81 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 30 minutes is good.
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Your SOA retry value of 30 minutes is good.
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Your SOA expiry value of 14 days is good.
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A minimum TTL (Time To Live) of 900 is too low. RFC2308 recommends a minimum TTL between 1-3 hours.
Zone as seen from “dns2.ox.ac.uk” [163.1.2.190]
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dns2.ox.ac.uk is running the latest version of the zone(2007042580).
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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 2007-04-25, and has been updated 81 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 30 minutes is good.
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Your SOA retry value of 30 minutes is good.
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Your SOA expiry value of 14 days is good.
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A minimum TTL (Time To Live) of 900 is too low. RFC2308 recommends a minimum TTL between 1-3 hours.