03.09.2011 By Cory von Wallenstein
Dynect 4.0 Launches: Permission Granted
We’re pleased to announce the latest major release of the Dynect Platform — Dynect 4.0 — greatly improving user and group permissions management for your teams.
Read More02.16.2011 By Jeremy Hitchcock
What’s My IP Address?: Learn About Our Free Check IP Service
One of the services we have run for a long time (more than 10 years) is CheckIP. Running a dynamic DNS service, this has been a critical part of the service that many people don’t actually see.
If you are behind a router, NAT or are otherwise not directly connected to the Internet and are trying to determine your real Internet address, you need a check IP service.
What does it look like now?
- It currently runs from three different places in the Unites States.
- CheckIP is about 50 Mbps of traffic.
- It’s an in-house small C-based HTTP server that runs on FreeBSD.
- We receive over 4 billion CheckIP requests per day.
This is also a common interview question for us as we usually have it as a homework assignment and ask people to spend an hour or two on it. Developers or operations people are asked to implement a couple different check IP services that has the most throughput possible. Authors of implementations we like get job offers.
If you are a commercial entity looking to use a check IP service, please contact us before hard coding it. It’s free to use, but we want to keep you up to date on any changes we make.
So, what is your IP address? Find out now.
Read More01.26.2011 By Josh Nason
VIDEO: The Sad, Sad Tale Of Not Having Active Failover And How Dyn Can Help
We’ve all been there, feeling helpless and literally down when there’s a server crash or when your datacenter has some issues. There you are, sitting at your computer losing hits, clicks and cash because your site isn’t available. You know that it’s not your fault, but the visitors you’re losing do not.
Thankfully, your friends here at Dyn have a solution: Dynect Active Failover, available to any customers using our Enterprise DNS service, the Dynect Platform. Simply put, it ensures that you’re always up and available to your users.
Read More12.10.2010 By Kevin Gray
Complete DNS Control Through Dynect Via Desktop/Web App
And it’s easy too!
Coming from a decidedly Windows based background I’ve noticed that the vast majority of open source code developers create and post tends to be centered around one of the Linux/UNIX based OS’s. I don’t know if this is completely true but that’s what it feels like when I am looking for a reusable component to make my life easier.
Read More11.23.2010 By Kevin Gray
Network Monitoring And The Dynect API: Keeping 100% Uptime
An interesting dialogue with system administrators seems to come up when you steer the conversation towards network health and how to monitor it. It sounds like a pretty basic concept at its core: does the network work? What a simple question with an incredibly complex answer.
Read More09.16.2010 By Kyle York
Calling all potential Dyn partners!
Does your technology or customer base need rock-solid premium DNS? Managed Hosting, Cloud Services, CDNs, ISPs, Retailers, Digital & Interactive firms, DevOps & Automation shops, Device Manufacturers (routers, NAS, webcams, gaming consoles)… hit us up.
Are you looking to add value to your offering or share in revenue potential with the leading managed DNS provider for consumers, SMBs and Web enterprises? We have a DNS solution for EVERYONE and are ready to get creative to align with your brand. We never fit anyone into a box.
Read More09.01.2010 By Kyle York
How DynDNS Business Became Dynect SMB
At Dyn Inc. we now truly have “a DNS service for everyone” and are giving ALL users/clients the ability to “grow with us.”
In December of last year (2009) our executive team spent nearly two full months putting together 15 internal goals for 2010 to grow our business, maximize revenue & increase profitability. The goals were split between enterprise and consumer initiatives, primarily revolving around product, R&D, biz dev, marketing & sales.
Read More07.08.2010 By Jeremy Hitchcock
DynDNS.com Bringing DNSSEC to the People
Last week was a great time at ICANN 38 and a huge step for DNS. The organization behind .org, Public Internet Registry, launched live DNSSEC registrations. Always pushing DNS further, Dyn Inc. is one of three registrars who already support DNSSEC for users who want to use DNSSEC for their domain names. This technology is like HTTPS for DNS (all the authentication but no encryption – DNS data is public).
Read More12.17.2009 By lhagemann
How We’re Making Our Awesome API Even Better
The Dynect Platform API is one of the most popular aspects of our service, and now we’re making it better, stronger, faster.
Two years ago, when we first introduced our API, we were responding to requests from a sub-set of our customers – those in the Cloud, and especially those working with the Amazon EC2 cloud. We wanted to make it easy for EC2 users to manage their cloud in the Dynect Load Balancing service.
12.02.2009 By Dan McCombs
Mac OS X Development Moves In House
To coincide with the release of Mac OS X Updater 2.4, which adds support for OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), we decided to provide a little history behind the update client which lead up to this release.
Beyond adding proper Snow Leopard support, this release is defined by being the first release of the client since moving development of the client in-house to Dyn. Up until now, development of the OS X client was done by outside developers.