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This morning we experienced a DoS attack directed against our DNS infrastructure. We have been working with our various providers to quell the attack and keep easyDNS services online. Currently all services are online and responding. Some customers may experience issues using ns6.easydns.net , as our Rackspace datacenter has taken measures which null routed the […]

This morning’s DOS attack was directed against ns1.easydns.com and is an ongoing event. Some upstream networks from our Q9 datacenter (Toronto) are enacting counter-measures which will render NS1 unreachable to users on the other side of those networks (examples are Teleglobe and Cogent). The rest of the nameservers (Miami, Phoenix, Texas, Toronto2 and London, UK) […]

We are currently experiencing a DoS attack against our DNS and Email infrastructure. The nature of the attack has been identified and we are working with our providers to restore all easyDNS services. We do apologize for the inconvenience.

We are seeing intermittent delays when forwarding to Shaw.ca’s primary mail server, idcmail.shaw.ca from smtp.easydns.com. We have mitigated the problem by forwarding mail destined to Shaw.ca through other mail servers. We believe the problem is a temporary issue at Shaw’s mail gateway.

Update July19 The email to members about this had the wrong date, this happened yesterday, July 18, not July 17 as reported in the email. Individual mail reports will be sent out shortly. This afternoon and tonight (tuesday) one of the new servers in the 205.210.42.52 pool (the smtp.easydns.com cluster) got seriously out of sync […]

Customers using easyDNS for mailforwarding to their “comcast.net” email addresses may experience delays or bounced messages. This is due to Comcast intermittently blocking email relay from easyDNS mailservers. Subscribers that forward their domain-based email to “comcast.net” addresses may want to consider changing the destination addresses for forwarded email to a non-Comcast address pending a resolution […]