After several calm interludes where we think the problem has gone away, it starts back up again and did so again today. To recap: People attempting to send email FROM network points inside Bell Canada, Bell Nexxia or other Bell ips (like from an ISP downstream from Bell), are finding that sporadically and randomly their […]
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NS1 and NS2 rolled back off of anycast
We seem to have traced the recent Bell network mail delivery anomalies to unexpected behavior from the NS1 and NS2 anycast deployments. For the moment, we have reverted NS1 and NS2 back to non-anycast nameservers. We’ll bring the anycast strands back online ASAP on new hostnames and commence an incremental cutover at that time.
Bell Canada / Bellnexxia mail delivery problems return
Last friday night Bell NOC staff informed us that based on our reports they had found an issue with their DNS resolvers and would be committing a patch overnight friday. This appeared to rectify things until this morning we began receiving reports once again that email originating on the Bell Canada, Bellnexxia network is sporadically […]
NS2 now deployed as a second anycast strand
We are pleased to announce that NS2.EASYDNS.COM has now been deployed as an anycast strand with an initial four nodes as follows: Miami Phoenix London, UK Hong Kong The new IP address for NS2 is 72.52.2.1 This compliments our earlier deployment of NS1.EASYDNS.COM as an anycast strand with nodes in Chicago San Jose Amsterdam Tokyo […]
remote2.easydns.com – Scheduled maintenance
To increase the responsiveness of “remote2.easydns.com”, we have scheduled some emergency maintenance for the nameserver tomorrow on Saturday, April 12th. Downtime is expected to be minimal, and the nameserver should return to normal operation shortly afterwards. We apologise for any inconvenience. Update: The maintenance will take place between 6:00am and 6:30am EST tomorrow morning (once […]
Webforwarding Outage.
There was a brief 15 minute outage to our web forwarding service (between 12:50EST and 13:05EST). We experienced a hardware failure which caused the service interuption. The issue has been resolved and webforwarding is back online. Please do not hesitate to contact support should you have any questions or concerns.