Category: 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 it’s possible to create an empty zone: errors will be displayed if important records are missing.
• All NS records may now be edited. Previously, there were two NS records (ns1-auth.rollernet.us and ns2-auth.rollernet.us) that were static. These may now be edited to suit the individual zone’s requirements.
• We’ve separated the edit and delete buttons in the record table display to reduce the chance of accidentally deleting a zone record. The new “Edit” button is now on the far left side of the record row while the “Delete” button is now on the far right.
• A TXT record may now be up to 1024 characters in length (increased from 255). Please note: Although long TXT records may be added to a zone they are not currently supported by the PowerDNS back end. An upgrade to PowerDNS will be made at a later date. An upgrade to PowerDNS 3.0 enabled long TXT support in August 2011.
  

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 generator button that will fill in a random 10 character password each time it’s clicked. There is no requirement to use the random passwords it generates and you can still edit it before applying the new password.

We’ve started banning connections by IP address into our SMTP AUTH service that are making excessive connection requests with blank login names. This came about after we noticed multiple IP addresses flooding our server by attempting to connect once a second without ever attempting to send a login name. We consider this abusive as it wastes server resources that can be used to process legitimate connections.

We’ve made the following enhancements to the Mail Forwarding management section of the account control center:

• A source search function has been added. Entering a search term will limit the displayed maps to those matching the search term.
• Email address and mail box forwarding types are now displayed intermixed; previously they were grouped by type and sorted separately.