Scheduled Maintenance Window and Affected Services easyDNS will be performing maintenance on various services on Tuesday, November 1, 2016 beginning at 8 PM Eastern in order to apply critical software updates to our systems. Brief interruptions of various services will be seen as we reboot services as part of the update process. Maintenance Details Date: Tuesday, November […]
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DDoS affecting our services
The target of the attach has been identified, we have mitigation successfully in place and will continue to monitor the situation. Thank you for your patience. One of our co-location providers is currently experiencing a substantial DDoS attack which is affecting the resolution of our primary website and possibly other of our services. We are working […]
The DNS Attack: What It Means, "Who Did It?" and How To Deal
As we all know, on Friday Oct 21, 2016 DNS provider Dynect was severely impacted by a big DDoS attack which has since been attributed to the Mirai Botnet. (interesting to note that “Mirai” means “future” in Japanese). Briefly: The Mirai Botnet is constructed by commandeering network connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as […]
Censorship, Cyberwar and Surveillance Will Lead to a Global Net-Split
I used to say in a very offhanded way that if the global governance and due process issues continued unaddressed, or the affronts to multi-national sovereignty got worse then the logical outcome, eventually, would be a “net-split”. A Net-split from the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) parlance is when a cohesive network – like the internet – splits off […]
Which Presidential Candidate is the Anti-Surveillance Pro-Privacy Candidate Again? I Forgot.
As it happens, Yahoo has been scanning all inbound email on behalf of the US Government. Reuters news broke the story yesterday. “Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The […]
MAINTENANCE WINDOW: Friday Sep 2, 2016 8:00pm ET
Scheduled Maintenance Window and Affected Services The easyDNS Control Panel will undergo a scheduled maintenance on Friday, September 2, 2016 starting at 8:00pm Eastern Time. During this maintenance window, the control panel will be unavailable, which means you’ll have no ability to update your domains. Migration Details Date: Friday, September 2, 2016 – Saturday, September […]
