This weekend we’re going to be building a new server for the internal system that runs Asterisk for our office and the Request Tracker ticketing system that handles email for role accounts (like support and billing). Although the current server is still faithfully running with its original Athlon with 786MB of RAM, it’s starting to [...]
Posts under ‘Changes’
New Feature: Primary DNS Update Multiple Zones
We’ve added a multi-domain tool to Primary DNS that allows updates for simple record types to be easily changed for multiple zones. For example, this feature can be used as a “find and replace” to update an IP addresses or its TTL wherever a match is found (within selected domains). Record types supported are: A, [...]
New Options for Outbound Mail
We’ve added two new advanced options for Outbound Mail accounts: Allow identities on single-user account Allow any valid subdomain These advanced options allow some of the restrictions on single-user and any-user type accounts to be modified. The first one allows the “left hand side” to vary on single-user accounts (such as for identities). The second [...]
New Main Website
If you’re visiting the main website at www.rollernet.us today (and in the future) it’s possible that you’ve noticed it’s now sporting an entirely new design.
IP Address Change for rollernetstatus.com
We had to do an unplanned change of the IP addresses for the rollernetstatus.com site due to chronic packet loss issues that were resulting in excessive false pages from Nagios (typically during the early morning hours). The VPS host says this should fix the problem, so we’ll see. IPv4 176.58.89.17 IPv6 2a00:dd80:3c::1e UPDATE: So far [...]
Now Running PowerDNS 3.0 for Primary DNS
As previously mentioned, we planned to upgrade to PowerDNS 3.0 to support some outstanding requests. We’re pleased to announce that this upgrade has been completed. As always, feel free to contact us with any questions.
PowerDNS 3.0 Upgrade
As promised, we’re going to be upgrading our PowerDNS authoritative servers from 2.9 to 3.0 in order to address the previously mentioned long TXT records and AXFR support limitations. We will perform the upgrade on Saturday, August 13 starting at 10:00 UTC-8. We expect the upgrade to be transparent. At that time long TXT record [...]
Primary DNS Changes
We’ve made a few minor changes to our Primary DNS management in the account control center that we hope will enhance our customer’s experience. All record types (except SOA) may now be deleted. Previously, two NS records and one A record were mandatory. It is now possible to delete these if desired. This also means [...]
Gigabit Ethernet, More RAM for Dedicated Servers
Over the next month or two we will be migrating our network to pure gigabit Ethernet. All servers – even the smallest Atom dedicated server – will be given gigabit uplinks. Because this change involves moving the cross connects on our side, we will be contacting all dedicated server and colocation customers individually to arrange [...]
Password Change Enhancements (Mail Box and Outbound)
We’ve made some enhancements to the password change pages for both Outbound accounts and hosted mail boxes. The account control center will now look for a matching outbound or mail box account by name and give you the option to apply the new password to both in one step. Also, we’ve added a random password [...]