We tread a fine line today as we pride ourselves in not chasing ambulances here. As we’ve pointed out before in our “DNS and DDOS attacks: how to stay up when your DNS provider goes down“, DDoS attacks suck and it’s the last reason we want to gain customers. But we are experiencing higher than […]
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[RESOLVED] Sporadic resolution issues with "dns2.easydns.net"
Earlier this morning, some customers may have experienced sporadic DNS resolution errors when querying “dns2.easydns.net”. This was the result of one of the nameservers in the Anycast cluster that makes up “dns2.easydns.net”, and we have worked with our upstream provider to have it removed. During this time, the nameserver would have been inaccessible, and queries […]
Hacking, Social Engineering and Your EasyDNS Account
You may have heard by now how Wired‘s Mat Honan was hacked. If you haven’t, you can read about it here, but in a nutshell: hackers got into his Twitter and Gmail account after easily obtaining the last four digits of his credit card from his Amazon account. With that information, they were able to […]
14 years of easyDNS and Four Core Values
easyDNS is 14 years old today! What a ride it’s been. We started the day on July 31st, 1998 as 3 founders, with no dependents and 0 customers. By the end of the day we had one dependent (co-founder John Schmidt’s son was born during the day), and 0 customers. And by the end of […]
Another DDoS attack against Web Forwarding
We have been hit with a second DDoS attack against our web forwarding pool. For the moment it is mitigated, however, Cogent has added a second null route to our web forwarding pool. So if you were impacted by that yesterday, you will also be impacted today (most likely). In other words, for MOST of […]
Web Forwarding during recent DDoS Attacks [Updated]
(27/07/12) Update : Mitigation of the attack continues and webforwarding solutions have been implemented. Please see https://easydns.com/2012/07/26/another-ddos-attack-against-web-forwarding/ for details (26/07/12) Update : the DDoS has moved on to the new servers, and both are now being affected. We regret any inconvenience, and continue to work to mitigate the attack. —————————————————– Our apologies if this sounds a […]
