Category: New Features

New features added to our DNS Editor tool.

We have added the ability for our customers to edit their Reverse DNS in our DNS Editor Member Tool:

https://members.sonic.net/websites/nameservers/host_records

This tool works for anyone with IP Address services with us; be it Colocation, Leased Server, DSL, or anything else with an IP address tied to it; you can now use this tool to assign the corresponding DNS records to those addresses.

This feature is most useful to those running their own mail servers and can also be of use to those people who want both the forward and reverse of their domain name to match.

Sonic.net Backup Service

Sonic.net would like to invite you to try out our new online backup service. Our online backup service is available for OS X and Windows 2K or greater. It comes with a 50GB quota to backup all of your important documents and pictures.

For helping us test this new service you will receive in addition to the 90 day trial period an extra 90 days of backup service. If you would like to sign up for this service, please email support@sonic.net so we can sign you up!

Sonic.net releases a few good Blogs.

For the last few weeks we here at Sonic.net have been working on setting up a few new Blogs to increase transparency into our company and keep our customers and the public at large more informed about our latest developments.

These Blogs are:

The Sonic.net CEO Blog – http://corp.sonic.net/ceo/ : Postings from Dane Jasper our CEO.

The Sonic.net Insider Blog – http://corp.sonic.net/insider/ : The inside scoop on the goings on at Sonic.net.

The Sonic.net Internals Blog – http://corp.sonic.net/internals/ : The technical internal workings of Sonic.net; a blog for System and Network Admins.

The Sonic.net Status Blog – http://corp.sonic.net/status/ : Messages on the current status of Sonic.net’s systems and equipment.

For ease of use you can see the latest content from all these Blogs aggregated at http://corp.sonic.net/blogs/ with links at the top of the page to the other Blogs; clicking on the title of a post will take you to the original posting where you can then leave a comment if you like.

It is our hope that these efforts along with other efforts will increase the communication and transparency we have with our customers and that that improved communication will improve the experience that our customers have with Sonic.net.

New Member Tools available today

We have deployed about half of our New Member Tool suite this
morning. Our new system has been designed from the ground up to
be easier and more intuitive to use.

The new tools available include the following:

  • Account (includes billing, quotas, password changing, etc.)
  • Databases (add, remove, administer)
  • Servers (for users with colos or leased 1Us only)

This is in addition to the Host Records and MX Tools that had been
previously deployed.

The URL for the new tools is http://members.sonic.net/.

Not all users will have access to all tools – for instance, users
with mailbox accounts cannot create databases and so that option
will not be visible to them.

Please check it out and let us know what you think! Feedback can
be sent to members@sonic.net.

— Dianne, Chris, Craig and Kelsey

Authoriative Name Servers now with IPv6 support!

a.auth-ns.sonic.net and b.auth-ns.sonic.net are now fully IPv6 enabled for answering authoritative DNS requests over IPv6. While IPv6 is still a long way off from widespread deployment we are seeing more and more services becoming available via IPv6.

Sonic.net has provided IPv6 tunnel services to all broadband connected customers since April of 2003. For more information check out http://sonic.net/features/ipv6 or head straight to our membertools to setup your tunnel today.

We’ve released our web based DNS zone editor…

Thu May 28 11:53:05 PDT 2008 — We’ve released our web based DNS zone editor for public beta testing at. members.sonic.net/websites/nameservers/ For more information or to provide us with feedback please see our local news group news://news.sonic.net/sonic.net Please note that this is an advanced tool that operates on live data and any improper modifications to your DNS could break your email or web hosting services. -Augie, Chris and Kelsey