The following post was originally run as a guest editorial for The Dollar Vigilante. The soft underbelly of everything you do online are your domain names and DNS. (Briefly, your domain names are the labels people use to reach your website or send you email: i.e dollarvigilante.com. DNS is the mechanism computers use to map where […]
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[RESOLVED] "mx-caprica.easydns.com" – Emergency maintenance – Tonight
Tonight the easyDNS sysAdmins will be moving “mx-caprica.easydns.com” (64.68.200.71) between data centres between 8pm EDT and 11pm EDT. During this timeframe, email relayed via customer mailmaps will be delayed, as the server will be inaccessible. External mailservers should by their very nature hold on to email and attempt to relay it over the course of […]
[RESOLVED] "xfr0.easydns.com" – Emergency maintenance – Tonight
Tonight the easyDNS sysAdmins will be moving “xfr0.easydns.com” (64.68.200.91) between data centres between 8pm EDT and 11pm EDT. During this timeframe, secondary DNS updates will not be possible, nor will external non-easyDNS nameservers slaving customers zones by way of “also-notify” be updated, as “xfr0.easydns.com” will be inaccessible. Once we have the server up and running […]
DNS2.easydns.net IP address to change
On Monday July 21st we will be updating the IP address for DNS2.EASYDNS.NET Old IP: 72.52.2.1 New IP: 198.41.222.254 DNS2 will also acquire IPv6 transit using: 2400:cb00:2049:1::c629:defe This should be completely transparent to all users. We mention it for the benefit of those using unauthorized vanity nameservers, which as we always stress will void your […]
New Host Monitoring Tools
A new version of our host monitoring system is now available that offers two new features: An option to specify a URL to test when monitoring HTTP and HTTPS. An option to look for specific text in the HTTP response when monitoring HTTP and HTTPS. Host monitoring and Failover DNS is available at the DNS […]
[RESOLVED] Minor outage with "mailout.easydns.com"
Between 5:22pm EDT and 6:56pm EDT this evening, “mailout.easydns.com” was returning errors for users who were trying to relay email through it. This was traced back to a routing issue by our sysAdmins, and was resolved. We apologise for the inconvenience.
