Monthly Archives: December, 2009
Power outage at the Amsterdam co-lo…
Just over an hour ago, the co-location facility we use in Amsterdam suffered a brief power outage, which resulted in two of our nameservers being unexpectedly restarted: ams1.easydns.com (part of the "ns1.easydns.com" Anycast cluster) ns6.easydns.net Our sysAdmins took "ams1.easydns.com" out of the "ns1.easydns.com" Anycast cluster as soon as this occurred, which means that "ns1.easydns.com" was [...]
appsto.re, a niched URL shortener for iphone apps
The other day I stumbled across http://appsto.re, a DNS client domain which is a pretty useful specialized URL shortener for iPhone apps. A good example is easyDNS' own iPhone app for easyWhois. The iTunes URL is loooooooooooooong and cumbersome, and to be honest, I can't readily remember what shortened URL I created for it on [...]
If the ns3 problem is still causing you trouble, read this
We've changed the glue record in the roots for ns3.easydns.org to reference a different node while we debug the data syncing issue. Some queries are still coming in owing to DNS cache issues. If you recently updated your zone and that update has not been reflected in ns3.easydns.org then you could also consider removing ns3.easydns.org [...]
NS1.EASYDNS.COM IP Change.
We are in the midst of changing the anycast address for ns1.easydns.com The new IP of ns1 will be 64.68.192.10 , we are in the process if switching the zone entry as well as updating the glue records for ns1.easydns.com We will leave the old IP operational for a couple of weeks. During this time [...]