Rogers Ontario users – we can help (so can others)

Written by easyDNS Support on January 9, 2013 — Leave a Comment

Some of us at easyDNS are Rogers clients at home, and we noticed service was down. A bit of noodling shows that they seem to be having some issues with their DNS resolvers. We're not an ISP but we do provide free DNS resolvers to the internet for folks who want it, so if you're a Rogers client, please feel free to edit your tcp/ip connection to use our DNSResolvers.com for the time being.

They are


cache1.dnsresolvers.com -> 205.210.42.205
cache2.dnsresolvers.com -> 64.68.200.200

You'll want to enter the IPs of course, not the URLs.

For step-by-step instructions for different OS'es se Google's helpful documentation at https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using

Here's how to do change these settings on an iPhone or an iPad: http://support.tapatalk.com/threads/dns-issues-how-to-change-your-dns-settings-iphone-ipad-others.8743/

You can use the directions to add Google's Public DNS or our own DNSResolvers.com (or both) depending on your OS.

If you're a unix/linux/*bsd type, enter it in your /etc/resolv.conf:


nameserver 205.210.42.205
nameserver 64.68.200.200
# you can optionally or additionally add Google's Public DNS
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

If you are behind a linksys router or an Apple airport extreme you will need to log into that and update the DNS settings on it, the screen grab below is for an Apple Airport Extreme:

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Announcing: easyAPI – the REST API for easyDNS now in Beta

Written by Mark Jeftovic on January 9, 2013 — Leave a Comment

We are pleased to announce that our REST based API for connecting with the easyDNS platform is now open to public registrations.

This API was brought to you by Andrew Wyld, who came here 6-years ago, bringing with him a lot of experience developing  automation and B2B communications systems (you should see what he can do with a Rasberry Pi!).

The documentation is available here.

If you are interested in accessing the API, please fill out the beta signup form here.

We've been using it for awhile internally (our Proactive Nameservers system uses it to switch your nameserver delegations on-the-fly) as have a few early adapter users.

Let the mad science commence!

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Proactive Nameservers "lite" package now available (1st month free)

Written by Mark Jeftovic on December 18, 2012 — Leave a Comment

Sorry we're late with the "Ace Up Your Sleeve" (a.k.a "lite") version of our new Proactive Nameservers uptime enhancement system.

With the "lite" version we poll your nameservers 3 times an hour and if there's a problem you get notified via email with a status report and a 1-click option to switch-over to your backup nameserver pool. The switch-over link is mobile friendly so you can save your company's bacon from the supermarket, in your car (pull over first please) or from under the covers if you're still in bed when TSHTF.

If you haven't heard about Proactive Nameservers yet and don't know what the heck we're talking about, check out this short 3.5 minute introductory video (or a larger resolution .mp4 here)

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easyDNS Holiday Hours

Written by easyDNS Support on December 18, 2012 — 3 Comments

Our holiday hours will be as follows. All days not mentioned will be set to our regular support hours of 8:30AM till 6PM on weekdays and from noon till 6PM weekends.

Monday December 24th, from 8:30AM till 3PM
Tuesday December 25th, closed
Wednesday December 26th, from 8:30AM till 6PM

Monday December 31st, 8:30AM till 3PM
Tuesday January 1st, Closed
Wednesday January 2nd, 8:30AM till 6PM

All hours are set to Eastern Standard time.

 

Nos heures de vacances seront le suivant ;
Tous les jours non mentionnés seront nos heures régulières de soutien de 8h30 a 18h les jours de la semaine et de midi a 18h les week-ends.
Lundi, le 24 décembre, à partir de 8h30 jusqu'a 15h.
Mardi 25 décembre, nous sommes fermé.
Mercredi, le 26 décembre, à partir de 8h30 jusqua 18h
Lundi, le 31 décembre, à partir de 8h30 jusqu'a 15h.
Mardi, le 1er janvier, 2013, nous sommes fermé
Mercredi, le 2 janvier, à partir de 8h30 jusqua 18h.
Toutes les heures sont exprimées en heure de l'est.

 

thank you

the easyDNS team.

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Say Good-bye to DNS Outages and Hello to 100% Uptime, Guaranteed.

Written by Mark Jeftovic on December 3, 2012 — Leave a Comment

The following press release went out this morning. Please excuse the marketing-speak. The upshot of this is "hot swappable nameservers" …brought to you by the mad scientists at easyDNS. Read more »

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Changes to failover DNS service

Written by Mark Jeftovic on November 13, 2012 — Leave a Comment

Effective immediately we are limiting the number of failover devices / hostnames you can have for each domain name at the following levels:

DNS Pro ($40/year or $55 including domain fees): 1 failover device per domain.

Enterprise DNS ($9.95/month domain fees included): 3 failover devices.

Additional failover devices may be purchased at $5/device per month or 5 for $20/month.

IMPORTANT: Existing domains have been grandfathered in with their current failover devices. (There are a few exceptions, and we will be in touch with those members).

Given that normal market rates for DNS failover range as high as $250 or even $500 per device, per month, we feel this is reasonable.

We've also added "PING" to the failover connection methods (other methods are HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and SMTP).

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Are You Paying TOO MUCH For Your easyDNS Services?

Written by Mark Jeftovic on October 15, 2012 — 3 Comments

 

In the final push to move the remaining members and domains from the old legacy platform to the shiny new one we want to try to make sure everybody is on the right service level to meet their needs. Many of you on the old system have been with us a long time and may still be using a premium level from the old platform (i.e "DNS Plus") simply to gain access to URL Forwarding or email forwarding.

In other words, many members are in a position to downgrade to a level of service that provides more features at a lower price.

(By the same token, a very small fraction of domains that use a high number of DNS queries will begin to be migrated to metered rates as previously announced. We will be notifying affected users.)

What follows below is a handy reference chart showing you which of the key features most of you use here are available at each service level. Click the service names for more details on what it means
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Security response to an attempted data breach

Written by Mark Jeftovic on October 15, 2012 — 10 Comments

Last Thursday we mitigated an attempt to breach customer data.

No customer data was obtained, and no domains or services were impacted, however in the wake of the attempt we have elected to accelerate our already planned security enhancements.

This is why, when you log in today and from now onwards you will be forced to reset your old password and we will start encouraging password aging, along with other security measures. Read more »

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Does "ad retargeting" now track your real world movements?

Written by Mark Jeftovic on October 9, 2012 — Leave a Comment

[ This is an email I sent to the Berkman center Project VRM list a week or so ago. I am still getting the "Trump Tower" ads everywhere I go on the internet in my main web browser. ]

Ad retargeting is when google (and others) can target the ads based on your prior behaviour.

A per recent example: if I go to shopify, but don't open an account, for the next few days I will be "followed around" the web with shopify ad banners on a lot of the sites I go to. The same has happened to me with Limos.com (which I use and think rocks), and page.ly – which I looked at some time ago.

I dislike ad retargeting because I actually *preferred* to see the old fashioned "contextually matched" ads that were based on the content of the web page I was viewing – why? Because if I was searching out a specific subject and landed on a page, I would get served ads from businesses that are actually in that space and I found it would educate me more about what's going on – in that space. Read more »

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Home Stretch in the CIRA Board Elections

Written by Mark Jeftovic on September 25, 2012 — Leave a Comment

At the time of writing there are about 24 hours left in the CIRA Board elections, voting closes tomorrow (September 26) at noon EST.

What is interesting this year is that renowned privacy advocate Michael Geist has once again been nominated on the members' slate and if successful would be back on the CIRA Board. This would be a good thing, because…. Read more »

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