Pingdom DNS Warnings: Should I worry?
Greetings,
Am a small biz owner, who knows only so much about the details of DNS issues.
Pingdom gives me 2 warnings about our setup.
Question: should I be worried? If so, what should I do?
The two warnings:
1. Name server ns.inmotionhosting.com (74.124.210.242) is recursive.
The name server answers recursive queries for 3rd parties (such as DNSCheck). By making a recursive query to a name server that provides recursion, an attacker can cause a name server to look up and cache information contained in zones under their control. Thus the victim name server is made to query the attackers malicious name servers, resulting in the victim caching and serving bogus data.
2. No SOA record found for www.mementopress.com.
No SOA record was found when querying the name server. This is most probably due to a misconfiguration at the name server - a zone must have a SOA record.
Am a small biz owner, who knows only so much about the details of DNS issues.
Pingdom gives me 2 warnings about our setup.
Question: should I be worried? If so, what should I do?
The two warnings:
1. Name server ns.inmotionhosting.com (74.124.210.242) is recursive.
The name server answers recursive queries for 3rd parties (such as DNSCheck). By making a recursive query to a name server that provides recursion, an attacker can cause a name server to look up and cache information contained in zones under their control. Thus the victim name server is made to query the attackers malicious name servers, resulting in the victim caching and serving bogus data.
2. No SOA record found for www.mementopress.com.
No SOA record was found when querying the name server. This is most probably due to a misconfiguration at the name server - a zone must have a SOA record.
