Zerigo Update 2
As we began a few weeks back, here’s another update on a variety of recent changes. With that background, on to the July 23rd edition of updates….
Let’s tackle a bunch of DNS items first.
Notes
First, notes (aka comments)! Need to remember why you added a specific host record? Or keep track of a planned, future change? Domains, host records, template, and template host records all now have the ability to store notes to help you keep organized.
Statistics
We’ve also recently added some charts/graphs to help visualize the traffic to your domains. To make room, we’ve added a Statistics tab to each domain which shows, well, stats for that domain.
Consolidated stats, for all domains on your DNS plan, are also now displayed in a new chart on the Service Overview page.
Then, for customers using our Custom Logic DNS Instances, traffic statistics for those instances is now available under Custom Instances—both per-instance counts and a chart showing aggregate usage across all instances.
All of these charts are dynamic and will show the exact query counts for each day by hovering over the graph point for that day. Everything’s done in HTML5 or SVG (depending on your browser) so it’ll work on any recent platform, even those that don’t support Flash.
Slave domains
A new option has been added under Tools for slave domains: Reload from master. This option forces our dedicated AXFR transfer servers to reload the domain’s data from your master server. It isn’t usually needed, but if something gets out of sync with the automatic update process, this should put it back together.
The most common case is when the zone serial number on the master server has gone backwards. This option will force a refresh regardless of the serial number (or much of anything else).
API
We’ve shown the API some love too. The notes field is available in all four relevant resources (zones, hosts, templates, template_hosts). Also new is the tag-list field for zones that exposes the currently assigned tags for a domain. Both notes and tag-list are read/write.
We’ve also added a new stats method for zones that will return the current query count along with the dates of the current monthly cycle.
The API documentation has been updated to reflect all of the above.
Security
We know that each of the services we offer is often critical to what you do. Accordingly, the security of your services is really important. Effective immediately (really, as of a few hours ago), we’ve tightened the security of login sessions.
While there are several things we’ve changed, the most significant is that we’re now tying your session to your IP. If you change networks, you will be required to login again. If your environment uses multiple proxy servers (or otherwise causes you to access our site from multiple IPs), you may be logged out frequently. If you have any trouble, please contact support.
Wrap up
Many of the things we add and implement are the result of suggestions and feedback from many of you—thank you!
As always, email support if we can be of help in some way.