[December 22, 2015] In version 0.9.13 we’re introducing a much requested feature: the ability to Ping a host or IP address in your Uptime Monitors. Please read this to avoid PING false positives: https://docs.hetrixtools.com/avoid-ping-false-positives/ You can also convert any Service Uptime Monitor into a Ping Uptime Monitor by editing it and removing the Port Number. This […]
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Barracudacentral Some False Positives
[January 13, 2016 – UPDATE] We’ve noticed yet another wave of false positive listings on these two RBLs. Their nameservers were stating that some IPs were listed in their database, but when checking on their website turned out they weren’t. [December 16, 2015] Barracudacentral’s nameservers have started issuing some false positive results. As always when […]
v0.9.12 Beta – Redesigned Monitors Interface & Filter Blacklist Monitors By RBLs
[December 6, 2015] In version 0.9.12 we’ve redesigned a bit the blacklist & uptime monitors interface to have less clutter and be simpler and easier to understand for our new users. We’re also introducing a new requested feature that allows you to filter your blacklist monitors based on one or more RBLs, meaning you can […]
v0.9.11 Beta – API Access & API Explorer Released
[December 4, 2015] We’re pleased to release in v0.9.11 a feature which has been requested quite a lot lately, version 1 (v1) of our API Access. For now the v1 contains just a handful of API Calls available for our users, and we’re considering expanding it further in the future, based on clients’ needs. That […]
v0.9.8r4 Beta – vote.drbl.gremlin.ru & work.drbl.gremlin.ru – disabled
[November 19, 2015 – UPDATE] We’ve decided to remove these 2 RBLs from our checkups, as a result of too many false alarms given out by them. [November 14, 2015] We’ve noticed these 2 RBLs issuing mixed responses to the DNS queries used to check the IP blacklist status. We’re unsure if this is a […]
v0.9.8r3 Beta – cidr.bl.mcafee.com false positives & disabled
[November 14, 2015] ‘cidr.bl.mcafee.com’ blacklist was giving out false positives and it was only based on the spamhaus RBLs (which we already cover). If your IP was on this RBL then it was also on one of spamhaus lists, since mcafee RBL was based purely on spamhaus lists. Also, to remove an IP from mcafee […]
v0.9.8r2 Beta – sorbs.net false positive
[November 2, 2015] A couple of sorbs.net’s nameservers were issuing false positive responses, causing some false positive alarms in our system as well. We’ve identified the faulty nameservers and have blocked them in our system, so they won’t be queried anymore. Thanks to everyone who reported this issue.
v0.9.8r1 Beta
[November 1, 2015] Revision 1 on patch 0.9.8 fixes an issue where sometime when adding an uptime monitor the tracking would start with 1-2 minutes of downtime. This issue had a very low occurrence rate and should now be completely fixed.
v0.9.8 Beta – Blacklist Check
[October 24, 2015] We’ve done several improvements to our Blacklist Check widget that can be found on the home page of our website and in your client area dashboard. We’re also dedicating an entire page to it, which can be publicly accessed, used and shared: https://hetrixtools.com/blacklist-check/ You can link directly to an IP blacklist check […]
v0.9.7 Beta
[October 19, 2015] Change log for version 0.9.7 Beta: wider content area for the screen sizes that allow it ability to change Contact Lists for any Blacklist Monitor or Uptime Monitor right from the monitors list improved/easier way of adding Blacklist Monitors to your account improved the blacklist check method for faster and even more […]