It’s that time of year again when CIRA holds it’s elections for seats on the Board. As I never tire of relating: when I was on the CIRA Board, I got the opportunity to travel across the country and meet .CA domain holders from all walks of life. When the Board held open forums in […]
Of Interest
DOS Attacks and DNS: How to Stay Up If Your DNS Provider goes DOWN
[ The original article was a bit “wordy” and appears in its entirety after the page break. ] Nameservers and DNS services are one of the most popular attack vectors for Denial of Service Attacks. Since we wrote the original article, the types of attacks against DNS infrastructure have since bifurcated into two distinct types. […]
02 August 2010 Telephone Support Hours
easyDNS observes the Civic Holiday. It’s called Simcoe Day in Toronto. Our telephone support hours are from 9am to 5pm Eastern. You can always email us for help at support@easydns.com . Thank you, The easyDNS Support Team
Interesting Internet Storm Center post
Greetings, I came across an interesting (and alarming) post at the Internet Storm Center, and I am passing it along. If you, too, are a Systems Administrator, or a person who is responsible for mail systems take extra note. If you’re not; look out for the following subject lines as they might be bogus. ARTICLE […]
When RBLs go bad: blackholes.uceb.org is now wildcarded
blackholes.uceb.org was an antispam RBL that shut down in 2008, but as with all RBLs, they tend to find their way into mail server configs and then ossify there. It looks like whoever ran uceb.org decided that two years was enough and to let the domain lapse. Yesterday, the domain’s registrar put the domain in […]
easyURL.net now CLOSED to general public
Our URL shortening service easyURL.net is now CLOSED to the general public. Only easyDNS members in good standing with at least one active domain in their account may use this service. To enable your access log into your easyDNS account and under your utilities module click on enable easyURL.net and then you’re done. Happy shortening. […]