DNSreport for milano-design.jp

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Generated by www.DNSreport.com at 00:57:12 GMT on 04 Oct 2007.

CategoryStatusTest NameInformation
Parent PASSMissing Direct Parent checkOK. Your direct parent zone exists, which is good. Some domains (usually third or fourth level domains, such as example.co.us) do not have a direct parent zone ('co.us' in this example), which is legal but can cause confusion.
INFONS records at parent serversYour NS records at the parent servers are:

s.ki.nu. [218.44.234.235 (NO GLUE)] [JP]
i.milano-design.jp. [210.196.66.181] [TTL=86400] [JP]
n.ki.nu. [218.44.234.234 (NO GLUE)] [JP]
[These were obtained from f.dns.jp]
PASSParent nameservers have your nameservers listedOK. When someone uses DNS to look up your domain, the first step (if it doesn't already know about your domain) is to go to the parent servers. If you aren't listed there, you can't be found. But you are listed there.
WARNGlue at parent nameserversWARNING. The parent servers (I checked with f.dns.jp.) are not providing glue for all your nameservers. This means that they are supplying the NS records (host.example.com), but not supplying the A records (192.0.2.53), which can cause slightly slower connections, and may cause incompatibilities with some non-RFC-compliant programs. This is perfectly acceptable behavior per the RFCs. This will usually occur if your DNS servers are not in the same TLD as your domain (for example, a DNS server of "ns1.example.org" for the domain "example.com"). In this case, you can speed up the connections slightly by having NS records that are in the same TLD as your domain.
PASSDNS servers have A recordsOK. All your DNS servers either have A records at the zone parent servers, or do not need them (if the DNS servers are on other TLDs). A records are required for your hostnames to ensure that other DNS servers can reach your DNS servers. Note that there will be problems if your DNS servers do not have these same A records.
NS INFONS records at your nameserversYour NS records at your nameservers are:

n.ki.nu. [218.44.234.234] [TTL=86400]
s.ki.nu. [218.44.234.235] [TTL=86400]
PASSOpen DNS serversOK. Your DNS servers do not announce that they are open DNS servers. Although there is a slight chance that they really are open DNS servers, this is very unlikely. Open DNS servers increase the chances that of cache poisoning, can degrade performance of your DNS, and can cause your DNS servers to be used in an attack (so it is good that your DNS servers do not appear to be open DNS servers).
PASSMismatched glueOK. The DNS report did not detect any discrepancies between the glue provided by the parent servers and that provided by your authoritative DNS servers.
PASSNo NS A records at nameserversOK. Your nameservers do include corresponding A records when asked for your NS records. This ensures that your DNS servers know the A records corresponding to all your NS records.
PASSAll nameservers report identical NS recordsOK. The NS records at all your nameservers are identical.
FAILAll nameservers respondERROR: Some of your nameservers listed at the parent nameservers did not respond. The ones that did not respond are:

210.196.66.181


Note: If you are running a Watchguard Firebox with DNS Proxy enabled, there may be a bug causing port numbers get mixed up -- if this is the case, you can contact Watchguard to see if they have a fix.
PASSNameserver name validityOK. All of the NS records that your nameservers report seem valid (no IPs or partial domain names).
PASSNumber of nameserversOK. You have 3 nameservers. You must have at least 2 nameservers (RFC2182 section 5 recommends at least 3 nameservers), and preferably no more than 7.
PASSLame nameserversOK. All the nameservers listed at the parent servers answer authoritatively for your domain.
PASSMissing (stealth) nameserversOK. All 2 of your nameservers (as reported by your nameservers) are also listed at the parent servers.
FAILMissing nameservers 2ERROR: One or more of the nameservers listed at the parent servers are not listed as NS records at your nameservers. The problem NS records are:
i.milano-design.jp.
PASSNo CNAMEs for domainOK. There are no CNAMEs for milano-design.jp. RFC1912 2.4 and RFC2181 10.3 state that there should be no CNAMEs if an NS (or any other) record is present.
PASSNo NSs with CNAMEsOK. There are no CNAMEs for your NS records. RFC1912 2.4 and RFC2181 10.3 state that there should be no CNAMEs if an NS (or any other) record is present.
WARNNameservers on separate class C'sWARNING: We cannot test to see if your nameservers are all on the same Class C (technically, /24) range, because the root servers are not sending glue. We plan to add such a test later, but today you will have to manually check to make sure that they are on separate Class C ranges. Your nameservers should be at geographically dispersed locations. You should not have all of your nameservers at the same location. RFC2182 3.1 goes into more detail about secondary nameserver location.
PASSAll NS IPs publicOK. All of your NS records appear to use public IPs. If there were any private IPs, they would not be reachable, causing DNS delays.
WARNTCP AllowedWARNING: One or more of your DNS servers does not accept TCP connections. Although rarely used, TCP connections are occasionally used instead of UDP connections. When firewalls block the TCP DNS connections, it can cause hard-to-diagnose problems. The problem servers are:

210.196.66.181: Error [No response to TCP packets].
WARNSingle Point of FailureWARNING: Although you have at least 2 NS records, they may both point to the same server (one of our two tests shows them being the same, the other does not), which would result in a single point of failure. You are required to have at least 2 nameservers per RFC 1035 section 2.2.
INFONameservers versions[For security reasons, this test is limited to members]
PASSStealth NS record leakageYour DNS servers do not leak any stealth NS records (if any) in non-NS requests.
SOA INFOSOA recordYour SOA record [TTL=86400] is:

Primary nameserver: n.ki.nu.
Hostmaster E-mail address: postmaster.milano-design.jp.
Serial #: 2005121800
Refresh: 3600
Retry: 300
Expire: 1209600
Default TTL: 86400
WARNING: The following nameservers did not respond:
210.196.66.181
PASSNS agreement on SOA serial #OK. All your nameservers agree that your SOA serial number is 2005121800. That means that all your nameservers are using the same data (unless you have different sets of data with the same serial number, which would be very bad)! Note that the DNSreport only checks the NS records listed at the parent servers (not any stealth servers).
PASSSOA MNAME CheckOK. Your SOA (Start of Authority) record states that your master (primary) name server is: n.ki.nu.. That server is listed at the parent servers, which is correct.

PASSSOA RNAME CheckOK. Your SOA (Start of Authority) record states that your DNS contact E-mail address is: postmaster@milano-design.jp. (techie note: we have changed the initial '.' to an '@' for display purposes).
PASSSOA Serial NumberOK. Your SOA serial number is: 2005121800. This appears to be in the recommended format of YYYYMMDDnn, where 'nn' is the revision. So this indicates that your DNS was last updated on 18 Dec 2005 (and was revision #0). This number must be incremented every time you make a DNS change.
PASSSOA REFRESH valueOK. Your SOA REFRESH interval is : 3600 seconds. This seems normal (about 3600-7200 seconds is good if not using DNS NOTIFY; RFC1912 2.2 recommends a value between 1200 to 43200 seconds (20 minutes to 12 hours)). This value determines how often secondary/slave nameservers check with the master for updates.
PASSSOA RETRY valueOK. Your SOA RETRY interval is : 300 seconds. This seems normal (about 120-7200 seconds is good). The retry value is the amount of time your secondary/slave nameservers will wait to contact the master nameserver again if the last attempt failed.
PASSSOA EXPIRE valueOK. Your SOA EXPIRE time: 1209600 seconds. This seems normal (about 1209600 to 2419200 seconds (2-4 weeks) is good). RFC1912 suggests 2-4 weeks. This is how long a secondary/slave nameserver will wait before considering its DNS data stale if it can't reach the primary nameserver.
PASSSOA MINIMUM TTL valueOK. Your SOA MINIMUM TTL is: 86400 seconds. This seems normal (about 3,600 to 86400 seconds or 1-24 hours is good). RFC2308 suggests a value of 1-3 hours. This value used to determine the default (technically, minimum) TTL (time-to-live) for DNS entries, but now is used for negative caching.
MX INFOMX RecordYour 2 MX records are:

10 mx.ki.nu. [TTL=86400] IP=218.44.234.236 [TTL=86400] [JP]
20 ibook.ki.nu. [TTL=86400] IP=210.196.66.181 [TTL=86400] [JP]
PASSLow port testOK. Our local DNS server that uses a low port number can get your MX record. Some DNS servers are behind firewalls that block low port numbers. This does not guarantee that your DNS server does not block low ports (this specific lookup must be cached), but is a good indication that it does not.
PASSInvalid charactersOK. All of your MX records appear to use valid hostnames, without any invalid characters.
PASSAll MX IPs publicOK. All of your MX records appear to use public IPs. If there were any private IPs, they would not be reachable, causing slight mail delays, extra resource usage, and possibly bounced mail.
PASSMX records are not CNAMEsOK. Looking up your MX record did not just return a CNAME. If an MX record query returns a CNAME, extra processing is required, and some mail servers may not be able to handle it.
PASSMX A lookups have no CNAMEsOK. There appear to be no CNAMEs returned for A records lookups from your MX records (CNAMEs are prohibited in MX records, according to RFC974, RFC1034 3.6.2, RFC1912 2.4, and RFC2181 10.3).
PASSMX is host name, not IPOK. All of your MX records are host names (as opposed to IP addresses, which are not allowed in MX records).
PASSMultiple MX recordsOK. You have multiple MX records. This means that if one is down or unreachable, the other(s) will be able to accept mail for you.
PASSDiffering MX-A recordsOK. I did not detect differing IPs for your MX records (this would happen if your DNS servers return different IPs than the DNS servers that are authoritative for the hostname in your MX records).
PASSDuplicate MX recordsOK. You do not have any duplicate MX records (pointing to the same IP). Although technically valid, duplicate MX records can cause a lot of confusion, and waste resources.
PASSReverse DNS entries for MX recordsOK. The IPs of all of your mail server(s) have reverse DNS (PTR) entries. RFC1912 2.1 says you should have a reverse DNS for all your mail servers. It is strongly urged that you have them, as many mailservers will not accept mail from mailservers with no reverse DNS entry. Note that this information is cached, so if you changed it recently, it will not be reflected here (see the www.DNSstuff.com Reverse DNS Tool for the current data). The reverse DNS entries are:

236.234.44.218.in-addr.arpa fml.ki.nu. [TTL=86400]
181.66.196.210.in-addr.arpa toyoko.owada.suginami.tokyo.jp. [TTL=3599]
Mail FAILConnect to mail serversERROR: I could not complete a connection to one or more of your mailservers:
ibook.ki.nu: Timed out [Last data sent: [Did not connect]]
PASSMail server host name in greetingOK: All of your mailservers have their host name in the greeting:

mx.ki.nu:<br />    220 fml.ki.nu ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:57:41 +0900 (JST) <br />
PASSAcceptance of NULL <> senderOK: All of your mailservers accept mail from "<>". You are required (RFC1123 5.2.9) to receive this type of mail (which includes reject/bounce messages and return receipts).
PASSAcceptance of postmaster addressOK: All of your mailservers accept mail to postmaster@milano-design.jp (as required by RFC822 6.3, RFC1123 5.2.7, and RFC2821 4.5.1).
PASSAcceptance of abuse addressOK: All of your mailservers accept mail to abuse@milano-design.jp.
PASSAcceptance of domain literalsOK: All of your mailservers accept mail in the domain literal format (user@[218.44.234.236]).
PASSOpen relay testOK: All of your mailservers appear to be closed to relaying. This is not a thorough check, you can get a thorough one here.

mx.ki.nu OK: 550 5.7.1 <Not.abuse.see.www.DNSreport.com.from.IP.218.44.234.233@DNSreport.com>... Relaying denied <br />
WARNSPF recordYour domain does not have an SPF record. This means that spammers can easily send out E-mail that looks like it came from your domain, which can make your domain look bad (if the recipient thinks you really sent it), and can cost you money (when people complain to you, rather than the spammer). You may want to add an SPF record ASAP, as 01 Oct 2004 was the target date for domains to have SPF records in place (Hotmail, for example, started checking SPF records on 01 Oct 2004).
WWW
INFOWWW RecordYour www.milano-design.jp A record is:

www.milano-design.jp. CNAME n.milano-design.jp. [TTL=86400]
n.milano-design.jp. A 218.44.234.234 [TTL=86400] [JP]
PASSAll WWW IPs publicOK. All of your WWW IPs appear to be public IPs. If there were any private IPs, they would not be reachable, causing problems reaching your web site.
PASSCNAME LookupOK. You do have a CNAME record for www.milano-design.jp, which can cause some confusion. However, this is legal. Your CNAME entry also returns the A record for the CNAME entry, which is good -- otherwise, it would require an extra DNS lookup, which slightly delays the initial access to the website and use extra bandwidth. Note that if the CNAME points to another CNAME, it will likely cause problems.
INFODomain A LookupYour milano-design.jp A record is:

milano-design.jp. A 218.44.234.234 [TTL=86400]


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