People have been wondering about “all those DDOS attacks” we have been hit with and more importantly, what we were going to do about it. We haven’t been idle over the past weeks although we have been quiet. One of my least favorite things is talking about security out loud, because I think making a […]
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SRV record support
Some of you may have noticed that SRV records are now supported. You can enable them for your domains in your members control panel. See https://support.easydns.com/srvrec.php for documentation.
Brief maintenance window
There will be a brief maintenance window at approximately 6am EST saturday morning for a hardware upgrade on the main members’ interface. The members interface and public website will be offline for approximately 10 minutes, all other services will be unaffected.
Companies: formulate a coherent management plan for your domains
We all hear about it from time to time: some large corporation letting a precious domain name drop off the deletion cliff only to have it snagged in the “drop game” seconds after it is released. I watched, stunned, a couple years ago as oracle.net (it was not a client domain) moved through its expiry […]
New bind ACL
We are publishing a new bind ACL for secondary DNS customers to reflect the new nameserver deployments (more on this in a follow-up post wednesday or thursday): acl “easydns” { /* * easyDNS acl v1.6 as at Oct 4/2005 * * this acl allows access for easyDNS.com nameservers * this list may be subject to […]
remote1 and remote3 redeployed
remote1.easydns.com and remote3.easydns.com have been upgraded and moved onto Prolexic.com’s “Clean Pipe” environment, as part of our DoS mitigation strategy. The new IP addresses are: remote1.easydns.com: 209.200.131.4 remote3.easydns.com: 209.200.131.10 Secondary customers should know that for now we are slaving secondary zones from an internal nameserver and there is no need to change their nameserver ACLs […]
