[May 30, 2020] On 30th of May 2020, at around 10:50 AM (UTC), our system has started detecting an unusually high number of downtimes, and upon further investigation, we’ve discovered that quite a lot of the monitored websites were having SSL issues. This was caused due to the ADDTrust Root Certificate expiring and in turn invalidating a […]
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Changes to our Uptime Monitoring Network
[April 6, 2020] We’re posting this announcement publicly as well, however all of the affected users have already been emailed regarding these changes. If you have not whitelisted our Uptime Monitoring IPs in your firewall, then no action is needed on your part, you can safely ignore the rest of this announcement. However, if you […]
krn.korumail.com – Unresponsive & Disabled
[March 5, 2020] This RBL has become unresponsive a few days ago and it does not seem to come back online. We’re currently disabling it from our system. If/when it will come back online and will maintain its stability, we’ll re-enable on our platform.
Abusix blacklists added to HetrixTools
[February 5, 2020] The following Blacklists from Abusix have now been added to our Blacklist Monitoring system: If any of your monitored IPs or Domains are blacklisted on these RBLs, they will appear as such in your HetrixTools dashboard and notifications after the next automatic checkup. Please report any issues that you may find in regards to […]
nsZones – Down & Removed
[November 27, 2019] nsZones RBLs have gone offline, which has caused some false positive ‘delisting’ notifications before our mitigation system kicked in. We’ve now removed these RBLs from our system: bl.nszones.com dyn.nszones.com sbl.nszones.com ubl.nszones.com You can safely ignore any of the last notifications regarding these RBLs.
rbl.megarbl.net – False Positives & Disabled
[November 25, 2019] This RBL has started issuing a lot of false positive results and we’ve currently disabled it from our system until the issue is fixed on their side. If you have any IPs blacklisted on this RBL, they will appear as being delisted within the next 24 hours (the next time they will […]
Google SafeBrowsing to be removed on 11 Nov. 2019
[October 17, 2019] We are planning on removing Google SafeBrowsing from our Blacklist Monitoring system on 11 Nov. 2019. This decision has been reached after Google has announced that SafeBrowsing querying can no longer be used for commercial services after 11 Nov 2019, and that commercial services should start using their WebRisk API instead. We consider that […]
v0.9.77 – Server Agent Monitor
[August 26, 2019] In version 0.9.77 we’re introducing a new type of Uptime Monitor which will use reverse monitoring in order to keep track of your server’s uptime. Here’s how it works: Instead of our monitoring locations pinging your server to determine its online status, this Uptime Monitor will use our Server Monitoring Agent (installed on your […]
spameatingmonkey.net – False Positives & Disabled
[June 12, 2019] The following Domain RBLs started issuing a lot of false positives and have now been disabled from our system: fresh.spameatingmonkey.net fresh10.spameatingmonkey.net fresh15.spameatingmonkey.net fresh30.spameatingmonkey.net urired.spameatingmonkey.net The false positive results also appear to be showing on the RBL’s website when using their web lookup form. For the time being, until this issue gets sorted […]
bad.psky.me – inactive & removed
[April 25, 2019 – UPDATE] The domain is now parked by a parking company. This DNS change has rendered the RBL issuing 100% false positives, marking every IP address as being blacklisted. Any mail server that is still using this RBL to filter out emails will see all sending IPs as being blacklisted (false positives) […]