With apologies for not posting earlier about this, but this morning the DOS attack expanded to all of our nameservers, however we have managed to maintain DNS availability. So far every single customer who has reported a problem with DNS availability over the course of the DOS attack has, upon inspection of their domain’s nameserver […]
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Dos Attack
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 […]
Update on DOS attack
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) […]
DoS Attack.
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.
Server monitoring now in beta
We are pleased to announce that server monitoring is now available for beta users. This feature is being rolled out under the DNS-plus service level and will be included as a component of that package. Server monitoring allows members to setup service tests on their hostname (A) records and our system will check those services […]
SPF checking on inbound mail forwarding now out of beta
We have promoted SPF checking on inbound mail forwarding from beta to normal production. All members can now optionally enable SPF checking on inbound mail destined for their domains via the “email” settings in their domain options. If the SPF validation equates to hardfail for a domain with SPF validation enabled, our mail servers will […]
