The voting process for the CIRA election is on for a couple more days, ending on the 29th. As I always remark, the .CA space is quite unique in that it gives the primary stakeholders, the .CA domain registrants, unprecedented ability to shape policy via direct Board elections, yet the turnout is often fairly sparse. […]
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Ok, here's what happened (with that DNS timeout thing this morning)
This morning around 8:30am EST monitoring services around the world, things like DNSStuff, Pingdom, etc began reporting DNS timeout errors for easyDNS back to their respective users. Oddly, most of the time a human check (like trying to get to a website in a web browser) would succeed. Not always. To compound the weirdness, none […]
Update to nameserver resolution issue
Update: 11:29 EST None of our data centers have reported anything looking like attack traffic, DOS activity or anything other than normal DNS query traffic coming in. We traced most of the DNS timeouts back to San Jose, which has servers in both the NS1 and NS2 anycast strands, we have removed San Jose from […]
Intermittent slowdowns on some requests
Since this morning, some easyDNS servers have been responding slowly to DNS requests. This has caused intermittent timeouts in DNS response for some pages. We apologize for any inconvenience. Our network team is currently investigating the matter and will update this blog as soon as possible.
Price Drop on Geotrust True BusinessID Wildcard SSL Certs
I had lunch yesterday with a colleague from Tucows, who is , among other things, our wholesale supplier of SSL certificates from Geotrust. I mentioned we had a customer who wanted 10 True BusinessID Wildcard SSL Certs and he said he would check on the possibility of getting us a price break on that order. […]
mailout.easydns.com aka easymail being blocked by Hotmail at the moment
Update: We have a workaround in place so mail will be flowing properly to Hotmail going forward. –Simon Greetings, The outbound mail service for “legacy” retail users (those using the old interface and system) is currently being blocked by Hotmail. If you’re trying to e-mail someone at Hotmail you’ve probably noticed it. We’re taking a […]
