At around 10:00am EST +/- 5 mins both ns1 and ns2 received sharp spikes of inbound traffic lasting approximately 15 minutes. While the volume of those spikes was not overpowering, the servers did timeout some queries. As many people know, we have been under DDoS attack against ns1 and ns2 since last week. The attack […]
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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 […]
Post mortem of the overnight DDoS Attack
Overnight on October 24, 2011 between the hours of approximately 12:55am and 2:55am ET the NS1 and NS2 anycast constellations came under a DDoS Attack. The attack was a combined syn flood and DNS flood which impaired the following anycast constellations to varying degrees: ns1.easydns.com/remote1.easydns.com (a.k.a dns1.easydns.com) ns2.easydns.com/remote2.easydns.com (a.k.a dns2.easydns.net) The attack primarily impacted […]
Monday, Oct 24 DNS resolution issues [resolved]
We are currently (as of 2:45 AM Eastern) experiencing resolution issues related to some servers in our dns1.easydns.com and dns2.easydns.net anycast clusters. These issues may be causing resolution issues for some customers. Our systems group is aware of the issue and is working hard on getting things back up to par. Updates will be made […]
Saturday, Oct 22, 2011 – No Phone Support
Due to an unexpected scheduling conflict, our support team is unfortunately not able to offer phone support today. We will still be answering emails as per usual; if you have any support requests, please send them to support@easydns.com
Verisign domain takedown proposal very worrisome.
Under a proposed Verisign initiative, all .COM/.NET domains exist at the pleasure of the United States government. Verisign just released an overview of their proposed “Anti-Abuse Domain Use Policy” Under ICANN’s Registry Services Evaluation Process. The program’s chief aim is to provide a takedown mechanism of malicious websites distributing malware. In itself, not a bad […]
