Stephen @ Anno, Author at Anno Internet

20Sep2016

Name server connectivity – 20 September

By Stephen @ Anno on 20 September 2016

The New Jersey data centre that hosts one of our domain name servers is experiencing connectivity problems.

13Sep2016

Let’s Encrypt – Digital certificates for everyone!

By Stephen @ Anno on 13 September 2016

A while back, Let’s Encrypt launched an initiative for free TSL certificates. This is part of a growing movement to secure the Internet and protect people’s privacy. Let’s Encrypt certificates have now arrived on Anno hosting plans.

Posted in Announcements

10Aug2016

Emails denied with “Win.Exploit.CVE_2016_3316-1” error

By Stephen @ Anno on 10 August 2016

A virus signature update today by ClamAV is causing emails with Microsoft Word attachments to be incorrectly identified as having a Tojan virus infection “Win.Exploit.CVE_2016_3316-1”.

Posted in Uncategorized

26Jul2016

SMTP attack – 25 July

By Stephen @ Anno on 26 July 2016

Our Dallas infrastructure has been under SMTP attack this week. Similar to an incident in February, spammers are using botnets to try connecting to our mail servers. To mitigate the attack, we have implemented soft failures for connections from IP addresses without reverse DNS.

Posted in Service Notices

20Jul2016

ZA Central Registry maintenance – 23 July

By Stephen @ Anno on 20 July 2016

he ZA Central Registry will perform administrative maintenance on Saturday 23 July 19:30 and 21:30 SA time. During the maintenance period all registration and management functions for CO.ZA and ORG.ZA will be unavailable. All domains will of course continue to function as normal.