We’ve made further adjustments to the system. While symptoms disappeared quite quickly, we continue to monitor the situation. If, perchance, this recurs and you happen to be near a shell, please run this command: dig +trace [domain] and then email us those results. If you also include a “traceroute” it may be helpful as well. […]
DNS Anomaly on Saturday – transient lookup issues [resolved]
On Saturday, July 9, between 5:30pm EST and 6:30pm EST (21:30 – 22:30 UTC) we had a spike in users reporting response issues on some domains. Service degraded for the better part of an hour for some domains or (more likely) some parts of the world. As much as we hate to use the “regional […]
And now for something less confusing…
One of the more common criticisms of the new interface we’ve been hearing back from our members is that the Domain Overview module was “too busy” with too much stuff making it hard to find what you’re looking for.
easyIPv6.com and the #IPv6day DNS Hosting Promo
June 8, 2011 is World IPv6 Day. Most of our nameservers have been dual-stacked for IPv6 for a few months now, the exception being dns2, which is the Prolexic deployed anycast constellation. So we’ve already been running IPv6 enabled nameservers, and we actually hung ourselves up a little ahead of IPv6day by creating a weird […]
Contracts Suck.
I’ve been writing this post in my mind for a few weeks now. We recently terminated our relationship with a certain vendor, basically because the results were deteriorating steadily for awhile and we just finally decided “enough already” and pulled the plug. We were paying them $500/month since 2000. A few weeks later I receive […]
easyIPCalc: The (free) IPv4 Subnet Calculator App for your iPhone
Some companies put out pens with their logo on it, or baseball hats nobody will ever wear, or mousepads made from toxic sludge. We prefer to put out useful stuff. Today we are very pleased to announce the release of easyIPCalc, a free IPv4 Subnet Calculator iPhone app. It was coded by Marija Solaja […]
