We’ve noticed an uptick in users from Bell, Sympatico and Rogers reporting “missing” email via email forwarding. Further investigation reveals that the emails in question have been misfiled by Hotmail or Yahoo into their spam folder (Rogers and Bell outsource their mail offerings to Yahoo and Hotmail respectively). If this is becoming a problem for […]
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Go vote in the CIRA elections, if you haven't already
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. […]
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. […]
