FreeDNS.ws

Service outage, 25 Dec 2010

2010-12-28T08:19:00.001-08:00

Our service is under DDoS-attack since Christmas. The DDoS started on 25 December and continue until now. The nature of the attack is DNS UDP flood which is forwarded to our DNS Servers through NS-records of these domains:

factorr1.net
germofrod.net
muzhia.net
fortelus.net
reseption.net
k1ak1a.net
reseption.net
www.wanwanmei.com
jinzhi.wsf8.com
www.wsf8.com

Our infrastructure did not suffer from the DDoS, but our upstreams are under higher load than usual. So you could have experienced some difficulties in request processing. At the moment we are workingon mitigation of the attack together with hosters and registrars of malicious domains

Проблемы с доступностью сервиса, 25 декабря 2010

2010-12-28T08:17:00.001-08:00

Дорогие пользователи,

В самом конце 2010 года наш сервис попал под DDoS-атаку. Атака началась 25 декабря, и продолжаетсядо сих пор. Природа атаки - DNS UDP флуд, который направлен наши сервера через NS-записи следующих доменов:

factorr1.net
germofrod.net
muzhia.net
fortelus.net
reseption.net
k1ak1a.net
reseption.net
www.wanwanmei.com
jinzhi.wsf8.com
www.wsf8.com

Наша инфраструктура не пострадала, однако входящие каналы на наших серверах испытывают повышенную нагрузку, в связи с чем возможны некоторые затруднения в обслуживании запросов. В данный момент мысоместно с нашими хостерами и регистраторами доменов работаем над скорейшим решением проблемы.

С наступающим Вас 2011 годом!

Снова попали под DDoS

2010-07-21T07:42:00.000-07:00

Мы снова оказались под DDoS атакой. Посмотрим, насколько хватит каналов и серверов для ее отражения. Сервис может работать нестабильно во время отражения атаки, так что просьба немного повременить с обращениями в саппорт

DNS servers outage

2010-07-21T05:01:00.000-07:00

Again, as a month ago, we have gotten a DDoS attack on our shoulders. We are currently experiencing a huge traffic hit, near 3GBit / sec. While we are working on attack mitigation, our DNS servers may be in unstable mode, so please be warned about possible outages.

Regards, FreeDNS.ws team

Технические детали инцидента

2009-12-28T07:42:00.000-08:00

По какой-то своей причине SPAMHAUS решает, что домены qhost.info и aaax.info являются спамерскими и с ними необходимо вести беспощадную борьбу. Оба домена были зарегистрированы через GoDaddy.com и их владельцы решили воспользоваться нашим сервисом для ведения зон. Естественным было указать при регистрации наши NS-ы для нормального резолвинга, что и было сделано.

SPAMHAUS, обнаружив такое вопиющее безобразие пишет жалобу нам и хостингам Hosting.UA и Akanoc.com в результате чего оба хостинга грозят нам отключением, а мы совершенно по-честному ставим зоны qhost.info и aaax.info в состояние suspend и перестаем их резолвить, более того – прикрываем аккаунты, с которых проходила регистрация этих доменов.

Казалось бы – конфликт исчерпан, все счастливы, зоны не резолвятся, спам не шлется. Однако, не прошло и месяца как SPAMHAUS обнаруживает, что зло не побеждено до конца, и что у доменов qhost.info и aaax.info по-прежнему указаны наши NS-ы! Вместо того, чтобы писать жалобу в GoDaddy.com который способен исправить это вопиющее безобразие SPAMHAUS идет проторенной дорожкой и повторно пишет в Hosting.UA и Akanoc.com. В результате нас просто выключают не то за «повторное нарушение» каких-то там правил, не то за «не соблюдение» не то за «не выполнение», никто толком ничего не смог объяснить.

А NS-ы для доменов qhost.info и aaax.info по прежнему указаны наши :(

Бесплатные сервисы, спаммеры и ретивые бойцы за чистоту Сети.

2009-05-29T07:42:00.000-07:00

Как на сегодняшний день борятся со спамом? Cценарий где-то следующий: 1.Сервис, обслуживающий базу по фильтрации получает жалобу. 2.На основании этой жалобы блокируются блоки IP-адресов хостера, который обслуживает сервис, соответственно ВСЕ клиенты хостинг-провайдера получают проблемы с исходящей почтой. 3.Хостинг провайдер, столкнувшись с такими проблемами, отключает <провинившийся> сервер. 4.Начинается разбирательство: хостер пишет борцам со спамом, которые занесли его сети адресов в блек-листы. 5.Хостер выходит из блек-листов, а его клиент, которого обвинили в спаме или пособничестве ищет нового хостера. По этому пути не так давно пришлось пройти нашему бесплатному сервису. Мы потеряли хостинг, наши клиенты получили проблемы с доступностью доменов, записи которых мы обслуживали. На данный момент проблемы позади. Сервис на новом хостинге, наша мониторинг служба внимательней и строже отсматривает клиентов на предмет принадлежности к спаму и прочему кибер-криминалу. Жизнь продолжается.

P.S. Стоит признать, что современные методы «борьбы со спамом», когда борются с последствиями, а не с источниками и решения о санкциях принимаются не всегда компетентными людьми несут не столько конструктивный, а больше деструктивный характер. Организация подобных мероприятий требует объединения хостинг-провайдеров, а не «некоммерческих организаций», торгующих базами и софтом.

Technical details of the incident with SPAMHAUS

2009-05-26T14:03:00.000-07:00

For some reason SPAMHAUS decides that qhost.info and aaax.info are spammer`s domains and to be mercilessly struggled with. These both domains were registered through GoDaddy.com and their owners decided to use our service for putting zones into operation. It was natural to specify our NS for proper resolving. Which was done.

SPAMHAUS discovers such crying disgrace and writes an abuse to us as well as to Hosting.UA and Akanoc.com. Consequently both hosting companies threat us with shutdown. And we fairly put qhost.info and aaax.info zones into suspend mode and stop resolving them, and above that we close accounts from which these zones were registered.

It seems that conflict is closed, everyone's happy, zones don't resolve, spam is not sended. However, in a month SPAMHAUS discovers that evil was not beaten to the grounds and that domains qhost.info and aaax.info are still using our NS! Instead of writing abuse to GoDaddy.com which is able to correct this situation, SPAMHAUS sends another abuse to Hosting.UA and
Akanoc.com. As result we`re simply cut off because of "recurring violation" of some rules or "inobservance" and "non-fulfilment". And nobody was able to clear the situation.

And the NS specified for qhost.info - aaax.info are point to our service still

Free services, spammers and zealous fighters for "clean" Internet.

2009-05-25T06:52:00.000-07:00

Free services, spammers and zealous fighters for the "clean" Internet.
How do we fight with spam today?

The typical scenario has following stages:
1. A department operating with spam database receives a complaint against a web-site
2. According to this complaint large blocks of the hoster’s IP adresses are set as blocked.
As a result, ALL clients of the hosting-provider face troubles with outgoing e-mails.
3. The hosting provider has no choice but to switch off the server "responsible for the crime"

4. Here comes the showdown: hoster contacts spam-fighters who black-listed his adresses.
5. Hoster clears the skirt of, while his client blamed in spamming is forced to look for a new hoster as its server is shoot down.

Our free service has experienced above-mentioned situation recently.
We lost the hosting, our clients got problems with domain access ....
We solved the problem by moving to a new hosting for our service.
Our examining department thoroughly monitors our clients regarding spam
activities and other cyber crimes. Life goes on.

P.S. It should be recognized that modern methods of "struggle against a spam" deal more with struggling consequences and not the sources and reasons. Decisions on sanctions are accepted not always by competent people and bear not constructive but more destructive character. The organization of such activities requires a formation of hosting-providers instead of "the noncommercial organizations" trading bases and a software.

Launching new NS server - NS4.FREEDNS.WS

2009-02-24T11:31:00.001-08:00

It is a big pleasure to inform you that another NS server has been placed into production - NS4.FREEDNS.WS. The hardware has been granted by Pilosoft - one of the oldest hosting company. Pilosft provides inexpensive quality servers to webmasters more then 7 years. Free DNS Hosting service FreeDNS.ws has been launched not so ago and get more than 10,000 users. It's worth to say that our services will be forever free. At your service!

Full list of our NS servers now is:

ns1.freedns.ws
ns2.freedns.ws
ns3.freedns.ws
ns4.freedns.ws

And one more free advice from our team

2008-10-21T03:37:00.000-07:00

We are glad to introduce new free service for Internet-community: FFF.TO — free visitors redirection service (or URL shortinizer). It is very useful for:

make long or very long urls short
allow registered users to track statistics on visitors of their short URLs
helps to control traffic and visitors flow: you may redirect users to several different resources from one link.
hides referral codes which may increase referral earnings up to 30%.
Constantly improving. If you think that it will be useful to taught the service for something else - let us know. Useful features will be implemented immediately.

See its web-site for further details.

NS3 have arrived! Thanks to our sponsors.

2008-10-21T03:23:00.000-07:00

Thanks to AdvancedHosters company, which provides quality hosting services for individuals
and for enterprise clients, we have got a powerful server for NS3.

We highly recommend to all our users to add this record (ns3.freedns.ws) to domains, which are served by FreeDNS.ws

Full list of our NS servers now is:

ns1.freedns.ws
ns2.freedns.ws
ns3.freedns.ws

Free DNS became more social!

2008-10-21T03:15:00.000-07:00

As you might have noticed our blog has been moved to blogger.com. We are big fans of services from Google. Users of our free service could appreciate usability of one-click setup of their Google mail under own domain. And someone even learned about that feature from us. And in choosing between WordPress and Blogger the latest have won. Also you may follow the latest news from us through FeedBurner and Twitter.

Publication of tutorials on YouTube is in our nearest plans.

Fixed SOA Record

2008-08-17T02:46:00.000-07:00

We have fixed a problem with SOA record. Thanks for our member Harliff for pointing that out

Fixed Wildcard DNS records

2008-08-10T02:45:00.000-07:00

We have fixed the bug with wildcard DNS records. Big thanks to http://anarhist.name/ for pointing that out.

Free DNS for everyone - open now!

2008-07-27T01:38:00.000-07:00

AdMedia Company represents the new service to the Internet-Community – FreeDns.Ws.

We studied different service proposals of different free Domain Name-servers and have come to conclusion, that offered services mismatch modern functionality requirements. It concerns the user interfaces made only «for programmers», and also contradiction to modern Internet development tendency. Not far off IPv6 introduction and it first of all will concern NS-services!
We were pushed to making our FreeDNS service because of desire to make NS-records management convenient and clear for usual user. So there are main advantages and functions which will be interesting for you in your opinion:

During development the main our issues was reliability: The servers which serve NS-inquiries are placed on different continents. High-speed channels and powerful computers provide optimum system speed.
Easy and user-friendly control interface.
It is enough base knowledge for fulfillment of any standard tasks about domain names management. Service was supported by contextual help and understandable pictograms.
E-mail Integration under your domain name with Gmail from Google.
It is unnecessary to pay for post service under your domain. There is all power of the advanced e-mail service at your disposal. It is setting up with several clicks.
The redirect (web-forwarding) system at your disposal as well. You can redirect all traffic from your domain with the necessary http protocol code*
Internationality. Thanks to help of users from different countries our service’s page was translated in several languages. The quantity of supported languages will increase.

You can also use free of charge utilities on our website. It is. The last utility checks entered IP address for attached RBL-filters, popular anti-spam systems.

Finally to judge merits and demerits of our service we give to the users. From our part we promise to improve our service constantly. We will be glad to hear your comments and offers about development.

It would be desirable to take out the separate gratitude to the Hosting.UA hosting company which has given a server for Secondary DNS. We hope that use of our service will give you pleasure. Welcome!

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