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PowerDNS Blog2066d473On Firefox moving DNS to a third party
DNS lookups occur for every website visited. The processor of DNS requests gets a complete picture of what a household or phone is doing on the internet. In addition, DNS can be used to block sites or to discover if...
DNS reddit2068d271TSIG and rndc question
Just a quick question. RNDC is just for server to server communication to push out configuration and push zones out to slaves etc. TSIG is just encrypting dns zones transfers communication. I would just like to ask...
DNS reddit2069d314UltraDNS Directional DNS
Has anyone setup Directional DNS in UltraDNS using SourceIP based routing? submitted by /u/Frndlyy [link] [comments]
DNS reddit2070d200Internal DNS confusion
Website is hosted at godaddy Domain 1 forwards to domain 2 (parent site) Domain 1 masks domain 2 so people only ever see domain 1 Externally the website works fine Internally we found a forwarding setting in...
OpenDNS Blog2070d278A Better Way To Manage Shadow IT and Promote Healthy Cloud..
We are proud to announce a new level of cloud application visibility, insight, and blocking which is now available as part of the Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) solution.* Shadow IT SaaS use has exploded and it...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2070d282.tel’s second-biggest registrar gets canned
A Chinese registrar that focused exclusively on selling .tel domain names has been shut down by ICANN. Tong Ji Ming Lian (Beijing) Technology Corporation Ltd, which did business as Trename, had its registrar contract...
PowerDNS Blog2070d226PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.4 released
We ve just released PowerDNS Recursor version 4.1.4, this is a maintenance release with no major changes. One new setting was added, this is the max-udp-queries-per-round, which controls the maximum amount of messages...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2070d239Whois privacy did NOT increase spam volumes
The advent of more-or-less blanket Whois privacy has not immediately led to the feared uptick in spam, according to researchers. Data from Cisco s Talos email data service, first highlighted by security company Recorded...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2071d247Afilias finally admits it’s American
Afilias has changed its corporate structure and is now officially based in the United States. A new holding company, Afilias Inc, has been created in Delaware. It now owns Afilias Plc, the Ireland-based company that has...
Stéphane Bortzmeyer2072d302Le livre-échange
Le livre, sous ses deux formes, papier ou numérique, est un objet de passion depuis longtemps. Ce ne sont pas juste des lettres qu'on lit. Les lecteurices ont des usages, des pratiques, ils et elles se prêtent les...
Miek Gieben2072d21Tweets of August 30 2018
RT @gtank__: @miekg @dgryski Here you go! https://github.com/gtank/gophercon-2018-microoptimizing-go/raw/master/Micro-Optimizing%20Go%20Code%20(GopherCon%20Denver%202018).pdf Wed Aug 29 22:15:37 +0000 2018 millions of...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2072d202Could a new US law make GDPR irrelevant?
Opponents of Whois privacy are pushing for legislation that would basically reverse the impact of GDPR for the vast majority of domain names. Privacy advocate Milton Mueller of the Internet Governance Project today...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2072d185No more free ride for ICANN Fellows?
Newcomers who get free travel to ICANN meetings will have to show they re serious about participating in the community, under new rules. ICANN is revamping its Fellowship program to ensure that it s actually meetings its...
PowerDNS Blog2072d222PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.4 released
We re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative server version 4.1.4. This maintenance release features several bug fixes. The two most important being a fix in the handling of child-zones with DNS...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2074d300Afilias sues India to block $12 million Neustar back-end...
Afilias has sued the Indian government to prevent it awarding the .in ccTLD back-end registry contract to fierce rival Neustar. The news emerged in local reports over the weekend and appears to be corroborated by...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2074d321More consolidation? Endurance said to be up for sale
Endurance International Groups is reportedly up for sale, perhaps the next piece of consolidation or privatization in a rapidly changing domain name market. Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources, reports today that EIG is is...
DNS reddit2076d206How to enable DNS over TLS in Android Pie
submitted by /u/nykzhang [link] [comments]
DNS reddit2076d275[dnsdist] Announcing: DNS over HTTPS on doh.powerdns.org
submitted by /u/ahuReddit [link] [comments]
DNS reddit2077d179AAAA record for IPv6
Network Solutions doesn’t support it. Can anyone confirm if GoDaddy does? submitted by /u/KingRichardN [link] [comments]
DNS reddit2077d265Sanity check on DNS configuration
We have a new app that is currently located at newapp.domain.com A request has been made to have this accessible at domain.com/newapp Is there a way of achieving this via DNS? We have a web content management...
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