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 […]
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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 […]
dns1.easydns.com is experiencing intermittent connection problems
dns1.easydns.com is experiencing sporadic/intermittent connection problems impacting users of Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 resolver service. We are aware and are working on the issue with Cloudflare (although it’s going slower than we’d like). Keep checking back. We will update this post. UPDATE: Our upstream provider has resolved their settings and dns1.easydns.com no longer has connection problems as […]
So you’re in the latest credential leak – now what?
Data breaches are increasing in frequency and scale. With mass amounts of data leaked onto the dark web from “credential stuffing” attacks, more people want to know if their private information is secure. So they look for services like HaveIBeenPwned(HIBP), which has been rapidly increasing its user base as more people move to protect their […]
