At about 10:35am the web interface for the new platform became unreachable due to the problem with the Xen server holding the VM instance. Remote hands are looking into it while the rest of the systems group are working on why the warm-spares are currently pretty frigid. DNS services, URL and email forwarding, easyMail are […]
Starting Wednesday, All New Domains Will Be Added via the New Platform
Just a quick heads up that starting Wednesday, if you are still using the legacy platform to manage your domains, any new domains you add to your account will be added via the new platform. This will be a pretty frictionless process. If you are logged into the old platform, your password will work on […]
"The Voice of The Internet Community Has Been Heard"
A couple of encouraging developments out of the US reported as today via TheDomains blog make us cautiously optimistic that the Stop Online Privacy Act (a.k.a “SOPA”) bill (to which we posted our objections in December) may be on ice for now. We were not alone in opposing SOPA and related initiatves, numerous domain registrars […]
Post-Mortem of the Jan-07 DDoS Attack
On Saturday, Jan 07 commencing at approximately 3:30pm EST (almost the exact moment I hit “publish” on a post about Save The Elephants, which we’ll repost later) we were hit with a multi-faceted DDoS Attack across three anycast constellations: dns1, dns2 and dns3. The attack was a combination SYN, ICMP and DNS Flood, in excess […]
Mini-FAQ about the Jan 07 DDoS Attack
Poor Les, is on Sunday support today and knows he’s facing a lot of email and calls. On his way in, asked me for some guidance on three specific questions he is expecting to face a lot today. Those questions are: How did something like this happen, and why did it affect me/my domains/my client’s […]
DoS Attack persists.
Also See: Mini-FAQ about the Jan 07 DDoS Attack [UPDATE: 12:54AM Jan 08] The attack traffic is still coming in fairly heavily. We are working on a couple of avenues of adjusting our defenses. [UPDATE: 2:33AM EST Jan 08] DNS1 is back online. dns2 has been mostly online througout most of this. […]
