10Aug2016

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

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”.

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26Jul2016

SMTP attack – 25 July

SMTP attack - 25 July

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.

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20Jul2016

ZA Central Registry maintenance – 23 July

ZA Central Registry maintenance – 23 July

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.

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19Jul2016

Missing invoice items

We encountered problems with our July invoice batch: invoices with multiple items did not correctly show all the items in their email. We have re-sent the emails with all the items in tact. We apologise for any confusion.

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27Jun2016

Domain name server updates

We have added two improvements to our name server cluster: a third name server and IPv6 support.

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