There will be a brief maintenance window at approximately 6am EST saturday morning for a hardware upgrade on the main members’ interface. The members interface and public website will be offline for approximately 10 minutes, all other services will be unaffected.
Companies: formulate a coherent management plan for your domains
We all hear about it from time to time: some large corporation letting a precious domain name drop off the deletion cliff only to have it snagged in the “drop game” seconds after it is released. I watched, stunned, a couple years ago as oracle.net (it was not a client domain) moved through its expiry […]
New bind ACL
We are publishing a new bind ACL for secondary DNS customers to reflect the new nameserver deployments (more on this in a follow-up post wednesday or thursday): acl “easydns” { /* * easyDNS acl v1.6 as at Oct 4/2005 * * this acl allows access for easyDNS.com nameservers * this list may be subject to […]
remote1 and remote3 redeployed
remote1.easydns.com and remote3.easydns.com have been upgraded and moved onto Prolexic.com’s “Clean Pipe” environment, as part of our DoS mitigation strategy. The new IP addresses are: remote1.easydns.com: 209.200.131.4 remote3.easydns.com: 209.200.131.10 Secondary customers should know that for now we are slaving secondary zones from an internal nameserver and there is no need to change their nameserver ACLs […]
DDoS Attack Status
As of 6:24 pm EST all of the remote nameservers are back online and the problems with shawcable transits have stabilized. We sincerely regret this occurrence and are looking forward to this week’s upgrades.
DDoS Attack continuing
We are currently under DDoS attack, the remote nameservers are down, ns1 and ns2 are up except for anybody transiting over shawcable.net networks. We are working with our upstream providers and remote admins to resolve this and apologize for any ill effects. In the meantime we continue to move forward to mitigate these attacks on […]
