We have scheduled a one hour maintenance window beginning at 6pm Pacific time on Wednesday, May 15 (Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 0100 UTC). This will be used to update network routers at each of DNSimple’s data centers to increase overall availability. We expect the DNSimple application and redirection service to each be unavailable for less than five minutes. Name service will not be affected. We apologies for any inconveniences this may cause our customers.
Announcing Advanced Editor v1 end of life
Today we’re officially deprecating our advanced editor v1.
Heroku Service – Specify Your App Name
Today we deployed a change to how the Heroku one-click service works. Heroku recently released their European region, and with that change they deprecated the “proxy” subdomain for Heroku apps. To make DNSimple’s one-click service compatible with this change, we now require your Heroku app name, as it appears in your herokuapp.com subdomain. When you…
Application maintenance window (April 21st)
In order to update several low level components of our software stack we have scheduled a maintenance window beginning Sunday, April 21 at 0400 UTC (Saturday, April 20th at 9PM Pacific time). It will remain open for two hours. We expect the DNSimple application and API to be unavailable for less than twenty minutes. Name service will not…
Sporadic ALIAS record resolution failure
On Saturday, April 6th, around 7:49 AM UTC NS2 (name server 2) stopped responding to queries. At 10:32 AM UTC, NS3 stopped responding to queries as well. During the outage NS1 and NS4 picked up the additional traffic. This abnormal load caused a portion of ALIAS resolutions to fail — directly affecting DNSimple customers. We…
Advancing DNS Into the 21st Century
Modern web applications benefit from fast DNS responses. DNS response times may still add anywhere from 10s to 100s of milliseconds to your applications overall latency. DNS providers are constantly working to reduce lookup times using technology such as caching and the use of BGP protocols. Even web browser makers like Google have joined in…
ns3 IP Address is Changing
Due to a combination of factors, including availability of new hardware and changes from one of our server providers, we will be moving ns3 from its current IP address to a new IP address. The new IP address is: 50.31.225.68 We will be changing our records to reflect this new IP address on 7…
A Golang Redirection Service
One of the services that we provide at DNSimple is URL redirection. You enter a special record in your DNSimple DNS for a domain and when we receive a DNS query for an A name of that record we return the IP address of our redirection service. If the next request is an HTTP request…
Partial DNS outage
On Friday, March 8th we had a partial DNS outage. Available and well performing DNS is a critical utility for the businesses our customers are running. We take this responsibility seriously. We continue to investigate the reason behind this outage and are working hard to prevent it from reoccurring. I would like to apologize to any of our customers…
Improving Visibility With System Records
There are some DNS records that you typically shouldn’t have to deal with, such as SOA and NS records. In the past we’ve automatically added those records to the authoritative DNS entries for your domain when your domain is added to DNSimple, however this was not visible to you, and that was causing confusion. Starting…