The changes to the eMail server have been made and tooling is in place to manage blacklisting. Both of the volunteers working on this have checked over our configuration and we should be back online.
There may be a few blips in email service today as two of our volunteers will be working on implementing a blacklist on the backend to cut back on some spam.
This should be in effect by 1430EST and should be a seemless change that won’t affect the majority of our users. If you have email addresses that you want dropped, reach out to our support center and let them know, but understand that the blacklist is a permaban from inbound emails once in place. We do not want to play around with mail server too much.
We are still seeing the attack ongoing and are still dropping IPv4 traffic involving the country of Brazil for right now.
To make an effort to not cut off everyday users who are not the cause of the attack, we have opened up IPv6 queries seeing as the problem does not appear to be affecting that side of our network.
Our volunteers will continue to watch the situation and will restore IPv4 service as soon as we can do so without adding to the attack. We currently have three volunteers watching this.
Alternatively, if you are in Brazil and you are a residential user or a hobbyist, you can reach out to our support center over email with your IPv4 address and we will whitelist you.
Due to an ongoing DNS attack, we are currently dropping request involving the country of Brazil on both name servers. Users in those regions will not be able to make use of our name servers until after we see the attack ease up a bit.