Between 4am-7am EST, some users may have experienced sporadic access to the easyDNS web control panel. We identified the issue and brought up the warm-spare for the easyDNS web control panel while we implemented corrective action upon the master instance. Normal services have since been restored, and we have rotated our warm-spare with the latest snapshot. […]
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Starting Wednesday, All New Domains Will Be Added via the New Platform
Just a quick heads up that starting Wednesday, if you are still using the legacy platform to manage your domains, any new domains you add to your account will be added via the new platform. This will be a pretty frictionless process. If you are logged into the old platform, your password will work on […]
[UPDATE]: Web Forwarding Slowness
Greetings all, Apologies for the delayed update regarding the webforwarding slowness. We have put some measures into place to account for the webforwarding slowness we have been experiencing. We will continue to monitor the situation over the next couple of days to see what else we can tweak to ensure the service is both speedy […]
Mini-FAQ about the Jan 07 DDoS Attack
Poor Les, is on Sunday support today and knows he’s facing a lot of email and calls. On his way in, asked me for some guidance on three specific questions he is expecting to face a lot today. Those questions are: How did something like this happen, and why did it affect me/my domains/my client’s […]
DoS Attack persists.
Also See: Mini-FAQ about the Jan 07 DDoS Attack [UPDATE: 12:54AM Jan 08] The attack traffic is still coming in fairly heavily. We are working on a couple of avenues of adjusting our defenses. [UPDATE: 2:33AM EST Jan 08] DNS1 is back online. dns2 has been mostly online througout most of this. […]
DOS Attack In Progress
We are currently experiencing an Denial of Service Attack against DNS1, DNS2 and DNS3 anycast strands. We are working on mitigation and will post updates as they become available. UPDATE 7:55 PM EST: Our mitigation techniques have brought the dns2.easydns.net anycast cluster back online, which should resolve slow response or timeout issues for end users. […]
