The easyDNS network infrastructure will undergo a migration and upgrade Saturday, June 16th, 2018, at 6:00pm Eastern Time. During the migration/upgrade, some services may experience short (from a few seconds to a few minutes) outages. There will be NO impact to DNS resolution. Date: Saturday, June 16th, 2018Time: 6:00pm ET to MidnightDuration: Maximum 6 hoursPurpose: Network migration/upgradeEnvironments […]
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Temporary problems with mailforwarding
We experienced a problem last night relating the domain name we use for SRS header rewrites, which allow our forwarding service to function with the SPF spam prevention protocol. The problem should not have directly impacted email delivery but some providers have policies which are blocking the email due to the issue. We corrected the […]
Control Panel Maintenance
The easyDNS control panel will undergo a scheduled maintenance on April 26th, 2018 at 8:00pm EDT. During the maintenance the control panel will be unavailable, which means you’ll have no ability to update your domains. Date: Thursday, April 26, 2018 Time: 8:00pm EDT Duration: Maximum of 30 minutes (The actual impact should be less than […]
Upcoming change in outbound email policy
As part of our ongoing attempt to combat spam within our email systems, on Monday Feb 26th we will be changing our postfix configuration settings to prohibit email being sent from addresses with domains which don’t match the account logging in. Our previous practice of allowing an authenticated account to specify whatever “from” headers they […]
DNS leak disclosure
Since the summer we have been carrying out routine upgrades and rebuilds of our anycast constellations. In July and August we rebuilt dns3.easydns.org and dns3.easydns.ca, while more recently we moved dns4.easydns.info from an outsourced anycast provider to one we have rebuilt and deployed ourselves. On Friday November 10, 2017 we were made aware that dns4.easydns.info had […]
Cable cut in Australia affecting connectivity to easyDNS websites
Word is a cable cut on iinet in Australia is preventing some users down under from connecting to the easyDNS website and email services (DNS on domains is unaffected). Customers have been reporting the problem to iinet support with varying degrees of comprehension from the front line there. Some users in Australia have been using […]
