We are investigating the periodic slowness in connecting to our mailout server – timeouts and delays in sending emails. We apologise for any inconvenience and are working on resolving this as soon as possible. Update: The slowness of delivery is no longer occurring or being reported.
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Optimizing DNS Performance: TTL Strategies to Reduce Query Count on a DNS Zone
In terms of DNS (Domain Name System) management and optimizing DNS performance, one of the primary concerns is reducing the query load on DNS servers while maintaining performance and reliability. A key factor in this balancing act is the Time to Live (TTL) setting for DNS records. TTL determines how long a DNS record is […]
Updated: Maintenance Window 2024, August 8 – Nameserver Name Switch
Updated: On August 8th, 2024 at 9:30am ET, we will be swapping the names of two of our nameservers. The WHAT: The current dns1.easydns.com will become dns3.easydns.org and the current dns3.easydns.org will become dns1.easydns.com. Only the host names will be swapped without the IP addresses being affected. The WHY: Due to infrastructure upgrades over the […]
Mail Forwarding To Yahoo Is Impaired – SOLVED
(Update May 23. 2:00pm ET) Yahoo engineers have told us that everything should be working now. (Updated May 22, 7:30pm ET) According to email logs, forwarded email to yahoo addresses is being bounced with an error: Remote-MTA: dns; mta6.am0.yahoodns.net Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 554 Message not allowed [PH01] Email not accepted for policy reasons This also affects […]
Email Forwarding Slowdowns: What You Can Do When It Happens
Starting last Friday (May 17th), some members who were email forwarding to their Rogers mailboxes started reporting slowdowns or being unable to receive email via their email forwarders. It turned out that Yahoo (Rogers outsources their email to Yahoo) was rejecting email from some of our forwarders with the message: Remote-MTA: dns; mta6.am0.yahoodns.net Diagnostic-Code: smtp; […]
RCA: Intermittent DNS1 Issues on April 3rd 2024
Background: Until March 31, 2024, easyDNS was contracting with Cloudflare to provide DNS firewall services on our DNS1 and DNS2 anycast constellations. After a good run, lasting over 10 years, we decided to go in a different direction and provided them with notification to that effect back in January. On April 1st, after removing RPKI […]
