Current Status Updates
Email Forwarding To Yahoo Addresses Delayed Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:40:00 -0400 » We are currently investigating an issue with Yahoo throttling email being forwarded from us. Any email that is not being accepted by Yahoo at this time will be queued on our mailservers until delivery is successful. This will result in a longer than usual relay time. We are endeavouring to resolve this issue, and apologize for any inconvenience. smtp/smtp2.easydns.com IP change Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:03:58 -0400 » Greetings, The IP addresses of our mail servers, smtp.easydns.com and smtp2.easydns.com, are changing this weekend, on Sunday October 5th 2008 at 9:00am EST The old IPs are; smtp.easydns.com - 205.210.42.52 smtp2.easydns.com - 205.210.42.53 The new IPs are; smtp.easydns.com - 64.68.200.52 smtp2.easydns.com - 64.68.200.53 This change should not impact forwarding or backup MX and should be transparent to you, the end user. If you have IP based ACL lists that filter mail, you may want to update them. Ideally though please use the hostname rather than the IP in any mail ACL situation, as our IP addresses associated with smtp.easydns.com and smtp2.easydns.com may change in the future without notice. Email forwarding delays... Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:37:00 -0400 » We have received reports that some customers have been experiencing delays with our email forwarding services. Our Systems Department is aware, and are looking into the issue. We expect to have a resolution in the near future, and apologise for the inconvenience. Update: 10/04/2008 @ 11:00pm EST We have switched our mail server cluster over to our new data center environment early so that we can allow the legacy environment to "clear out" any delayed e-mail. New mail that enters our environment at this time will not be delayed. We are re-engineering our mail architecture presently, so that we are not as vulnerable to some of the mail queue deluges (unintentional, mostly) that have been problematic in the past. Thank you for your continued patience as we improve our service. EasyDNS web site maintenance Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:18:37 -0400 » Greetings, On Sunday September the 21st at 6:00am until 12:00pm, The EasyDNS systems administration staff will be doing a major upgrade of our web serving infrastructure. This move will impact the following sites; - http(s)://members.easydns.com/ - The members interface. - https://secure.easydns.com/ - http://support.easydns.com/ - http://www.easydns.com/ This move will also impact dynamic DNS propagation. This move will increase the responsiveness of our member's interface. The stability of our members interface is already pretty good  but this move will also further improve the stability of our members interface.
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What's New
easyDNS soft launches DNSresolvers.com Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:59:48 -0400 » With the ramifications of the DNS cache poisoning bug beginning to sink in and the first exploit code being published today, we are anticipating an accelerating number of queries from our members about this and what they can do to ensure their own DNS caching resolvers are safe to use. We can tell you about two public DNS resolver systems you can use. One external, one we just launched ourselves: OpenDNS: User friendly DNS lookups - with anti-phishing protectionWe've never been in the DNS resolution or DNS resolving business. There are companies like OpenDNS who are. We know the people who run this company, they are competent and knowledgeable and we consider their service safe. That said, they also provide protection against phishing domains and they do trap NXDOMAIN traffic. Yes, they do monetize failed lookups via a search suggestion page with PPC links, individual users do have the ability to turn this off. easyDNS launches DNSResolvers.com: no frills, pure DNS lookups - fully patchedSome of our members have expressed reservations around using any DNS resolver that "alters" the traffic in any way, including typos and non-existent domains. Which is good news for us, because we've done this so fast we haven't had time to build anything like that even if we wanted to. What we did want to do is provide a couple of DNS resolvers for use by our members (or anybody else) who just want to know they're using a system run by people who are actively following this situation and are proactively keeping their own resolvers and caching nameservers as secure as the protocol allows. With this in mind we've turned up DNSresolvers.com today. No website, no user interface, at the moment it's just a couple of resolvers with the latest security patches in place and that will continue to do so, open to use by anybody who wants. We have no idea where this will go, and it's not really an official easyDNS "service" per se. But we wanted to do something to give our members options. If you want to use DNSresolvers.com, the details are as follows: easySPF: An SPF Wizard Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:06:14 -0400 » We've had customers asking us for a simple SPF wizard to help generate Sender Policy Framework (SPF) data. There are a few out there, but we have set up one at wizard.easySPF.com or spfwizard.com. As we iron out any usability bugs we will roll out some integration hooks to make it easier to pull the output from the wizard into your zonedata, but for now it's the old cut-and-paste. .CA registration only service rolled out at $19 Fri, 18 May 2007 11:56:33 -0400 » Happy Victoria Day weekend, eh? We're marking the holiday by filling a gap in our service offering. When .CA rolled out, we wanted to capitalize on our position as a premiere DNS provider by bundling our world class DNS hosting with our newfound status as a Registrar (this was very new to us at the time). Things are very different today and many of our customers have expressed the wish to have the option to register .CA's without DNS and have a price point that reflects that. So today we introduce the .CA domain registration at $19 CDN. As with our other gTLD registration and parking packages, this one comes with basic email aliasing/forwarding, so even if you just want to reserve a .CA domain name, you can start using it for receiving email right away. Happy May Two-Four! We are now tracking the Spamhaus PBL Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:29:58 -0500 » We are now tracking the Spamhaus The Policy Block list. This list allows service providers to define blocks of IP addresses where e-mail should not originate from. This service should reduce spam and load on our mail systems. From the summary at Spamhaus: The Spamhaus PBL is a DNSBL database of end-user IP address ranges which should not be delivering unauthenticated SMTP email to any Internet mail server except those provided for specifically by an ISP for that customer's use. The PBL helps networks enforce their Acceptable Use Policy for dynamic and non-MTA customer IP ranges. Users who have been added to the PBL (most probably by the originating ISP that you receive Internet service from) have recourse; you can go to the page below which will explain how to get unblocked. More information can be found at this location; http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/ | ||||
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