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 […]
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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 […]
Unscheduled server maintenance on easyWEB (cpanel5)
We have had a hardware event which has caused one of our easyWEB systems (cpanel5.easyweb.com) to be taken offline temporarily. We are working to get this sorted as soon as possible. This particular system is on our older easyWEB infrastructure and is slated to be replaced by one of our new systems on our easyWEB […]
#cloudbleed and how it affects easyDNS members
The big news this morning is #cloudbleed, a bug in Cloudflare’s web service that was discovered by a Google researcher to be leaking sensitive data, including authentication credentials in plaintext. Due to the size of the Cloudflare user base, this affects a huge swath of the internet, including many easyDNS customers. There are three main […]
