Current Status Updates
DNS usage counts back: May numbers borked Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:05:53 -0400 » We've re-enabled access to viewing your DNS query counts online. Unfortunately, the May numbers are out of whack: you'll see a large spike in your query counts between May 12 and May 19 which is actually each day's total carried forward and added to the next. This was due to a parser bug caused by a change in the output log format. Sorry for the on-again/off-again nature of this feature and we should be good to go now. Comcast blocking catch-all wildcard e-mail addresses, and some advice.. Wed, 06 May 2009 13:47:27 -0400 » Update: Catch-alls originating from EasyDNS to Comcast are now once-again unblocked. That being said, please minimize your usage of catch-all wildcard e-mail addresses where you can. It's good practice! Original Post: Greetings, Comcast is currently blocking "catch-all" wildcard e-mail addresses originating from EasyDNS. If you have a wildcard e-mail address set up at EasyDNS, and that wildcard e-mail address points to a Comcast destination address, it will likely end up blocked, by comcast. Important note: This block DOES NOT impact regular mail forwarding for target-specific e-mail address mailmaps. The best solutions are to a) use a different destination service provider to funnel wildcard e-mail address at, or b) create specific mail-maps for those important addresses. The immediate fix to get your catch-all e-mail working again is to log in to your EasyDNS account, and edit the e-mail address your catch-all points to, to point at a provider other than Comcast. We are working diligently with Comcast to get our catch-all processing system unblocked, but in the mean time, they are still blocking us. Now, with all that being said... A lot of people use wildcard e-mail addresses to "combat" spam, by creating unique e-mail addresses for every sign-up form. While that does have a limited positive impact for personal filtering, it just leaves you open to dictionary attacks and other uglies, like e-mail backscatter. Catch-all wildcard e-mail addresses are generally a bad idea, because what they really do is increase your volume of spam exponentially. When you have a wildcard e-mail address implemented, spammers can send to any username at your domain, and our mail servers will accept it, and forward it on. So they don't even have to guess right! My advice? Don't use part of your domain as a spam shield. You pay good money to own that property. It's impossible these days to keep your mail pristine, but using throwaway addresses in your own domain-space just opens you up to even more spam in places you don't want it to be. - Do have a throwaway address. - Don't host it in your domain-space. If you need a semi-disposable address, GMail provides an excellent service. I wouldn't otherwise suggest you "point your spam at host X" but Google seems to eat it up. Bug fixed for some dynamic DNS clients Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:15:20 -0400 » If your dynamic DNS client suddenly started having trouble sending updates over the last few days it is probably because your client does not support SSL connections and it was encountering a "302 found" response from our end redirecting it to an https address which it couldn't follow. That should now be fixed and dynamic updates should be working as expected. We're sorry about any glitches this would have caused. Hat tip to former easyDNS partner Colin Viebrock for the clue. Updated: Members site maintenance: February the 7th 2009 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:46:42 -0500 » UPDATE: We are pushing this update to February the 7th 2009, at 10:00pm EST Original notice below; Greetings, On Saturday January the 31st, 2009, at 10:00pm EST, the EasyDNS admin team will be doing maintenance on our retail members interface. This maintenance will impact members site access and dynamic DNS requests. DNS queries, mail flow, and web forwarding services will not be impacted. This maintenance will take between 40 minutes to as long as two hours. |
What's New
DNS Query counts now visible Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:22:55 -0400 » As of tonight you may notice when you log into your member control panel a new item beside each of your domain names called "query usage". This links you to a monthly histogram depicting the DNS query counts for the domain. Right now we are just compiling aggregate lookups across all RR types and we it only counts the lookups that resulted in SUCCESS. To get the exact count for a specific day, hover your mouse over the date. Use the "previous / next" text links in the lower right to scroll backward and forward by month. Keep in mind, we have no data available prior to March, so everything zeros out if you go back further than March 2009. 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! | ||||
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