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 […]
Resolved
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 […]
Minor issue with easyMail webmail [resolved]
Some customers may have recently experienced errors while attempting to relay email via the easyMail webmail interface. These issues were unfortunately due to an internal routing error which we have since identified and resolved. We have also taken corrective action to ensure that this will not happen again. This was a specific issue related to […]
Intermittent resolution issues with NS2/DNS2 [resolved]
Some customers may have experienced intermittent resolution issues with our “ns2.easydns.com” / “dns2.easydns.com” Anycast nameserver cluster. We have identified a specific node within that Anycast cluster as the cause, and are working with our upstream provider to have it removed. We apologize for the inconvenience. [ UPDATE – 2011-12-15 @ 5:58pm ] We have received […]
easyDNS and the recent BIND 9 vulnerability
Yesterday it was announced by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), the corporation that maintains BIND, that a vulnerability had been found that affects all currently supported versions of BIND 9. More information about this vulnerability can be found at the following URL: http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2011-4313 How this affects easyDNS and our customers This vulnerability specifically affects nameservers […]
Friday, Nov 11 – DNS resolution issues [resolved]
From between 4:30am EST and 6:30am EST, some customers may have experienced resolution issues with our “dns1.easydns.com” and “dns2.easydns.net” Anycast nameservers. It initially appears to have been the result of a minor DDOS attack, and we are working with our upstream providers to determine who the target was. We are also continuing to monitor our […]
