On Thursday, May 29th, maintenance will start at 11 PM PDT and we expect it to last approximately one hour. Here’s what you should expect during the service interruption: · If you attempt to access the PayPal Web site (https://www.PayPal.com) during the maintenance window you will receive the following message: “The PayPal website is currently […]
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Bell Canada mail issue seems to be solved
We are cautiously optimistic that the Bell Canada mail issue has finally been resolved. We are still running tests and keeping an eye out for reports and errors. Stay tuned for a more detailed follow-up after we get a post-mortem of the situation. Short version and something I’d like to put to rest right away: […]
Bell Canada mail problems to easyDNS domains
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 […]
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 […]