Monthly Archives: November, 2008
Why we do not offer Whois masking at easyDNS
We get asked this a alot: Why do you guys not offer whois masking or whois contact privacy? The brief background on this is: whenever you register a domain name, your contact details are published in a publicly visible database called "whois", where your contact details are instantly harvested by spambots and marketers who proceed [...]
Update: re ns2 timeouts
The issues we experienced with timeouts when querying ns2.easydns.com were cleared up as of approx 3:45pm(EST) on Tuesday Nov 11. We are still working with our provider to determine the root cause of the issue.
ns2 timeouts
We have been experiencing intermittent connecvtivity issues with some of the nodes in our ns2.easydns.com anycast cluster. We have escalated the issue to our providers and are working with them to resolve the issue. More info will be posted as it becomes available. thank you easyDNS
MobileMe and easyDNS…
A number of customers have been registering domains to point to their new websites published via iWeb on their MobileMe accounts. Unfortunately, while MobileMe instructs how to point "www.yourdomain.com" to their services, they don't have a way to easily point just "yourdomain.com" to their services. This is especially important as not everyone on the internet [...]
gmail / google mail forwarding fixed
It turns out the problem sending email to gmail / google was some sort of change they've made on their end which has, in the words of Postfix creator Wietse Venema "screwed up their support for RFC 2920 command pipelining. " This seems to have affected at the very least, anybody using Postfix 2.x as [...]
Gmail currently not accepting email…
We have received various reports of delays to Gmail email addresses from our customers. Upon further investigation, it would appear that the Gmail mailservers are deferring most, if not all, email that is relayed to them starting this morning at 10am EST. This has been confirmed via the easyDNS mailservers, and external mailservers maintained by [...]
mailout.easydns.com virus scanning
In an effort to enhance our mailout service and ensure its continued reliability , we have added virus scanning. All mail relayed through mailout.easydns.com will be subject to virus scanning. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact easyDNS support.
Barracuda Mail Issues
We have been experiencing issues with relaying mail to users utilitizing Barracuda RBLs and SPAM filtering devices. We are aware of the issue and are escalating with the people at Baracuda. More info will be posted as it becomes available. We do apologise for the inconvenience. thank you easyDNS