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2232d210Authoritative server 4.1.1 released
Released: 16th of Feburary 2018 This is the second release in the 4.1 train. This is a bug-fix only release, with fixes to the LDAP and MySQL backends, the pdnsutil tool, and PDNS internals. Changes since 4.1.1: Bug...
2232d216Registries reject lower fees for anti-abuse prowess
Registries have largely rejected a proposal for them to be offered financial incentives to lower the amount of abuse in their gTLDs. That s despite the idea gaining broad support from governments, intellectual property...
2232d217Domain universe grows almost 1% in 2017 despite new gTLD...
The total number of registered domain names in all TLDs was up 0.9% in 2017, despite a third-quarter dip, according to the latest data compiled by Verisign. The latest Domain Name Industry Brief, published yesterday,...
2233d209dnsdist 1.2.1 released
We are very pleased to announce the availability of dnsdist 1.2.1, fixing several issues that were found in 1.2.0: #5647: Make dnsdist dynamic truncate do right thing on TCP/IP #5686: Add missing QPSAction #5847: Don t...
2234d237Donuts may make .travel names easier to buy after...
Donuts has added .travel to its swelling portfolio of gTLDs, under a deal with original registry Tralliance announced today. It s the company s first acquisition of a legacy, pre-2012 gTLD, and the first community gTLD...
2234d235ICANN chief to lead talks over blocked .amazon gTLD
ICANN CEO Goran Marby has been asked to help Amazon come to terms with several South American governments over its controversial bid for the .amazon gTLD. The organization s board of directors passed a resolution last...
2234d239Economist would sue ICANN if it publishes private emails
The Economist Intelligence Unit has threatened to sue ICANN if it publishes emails related to its evaluations of community gTLDs. That s according to a document published by ICANN this week, in which the organization...
2235d236RFC 8315: Cancel-Locks in Netnews articles
Cela peut sembler étonnant, mais le service des News fonctionne toujours. Et il est régulièrement perfectionné. Ce nouveau RFC normalise une extension au format des articles qui permettra de sécuriser un petit peu...
2239d203Meltdown & Spectre
I didn't write about the hardware security vulnerabilities Meltdown and Spectre but André Sintzoff did and he asked for a place to put this online so, I host it here.
2240d604Can not change dns in arris nvg443b modem
I have Frontier DSL and they provide the arris nvg443b modem. The DNS servers being used are dns1.anycast.frontiernet.net and I get a lot of resolving host waits. In the admin I have added OpenDNS but I am unable to...
2240d200Net::DNS 1.15 released
Formal retirement of GOST statement
2240d236Hundreds of words and acronyms banned from .au, domains...
auDA has added hundreds of words, phrases and acronyms to its list of strings that are banned in .au and locked domains containing those strings. There were only about 40 strings on the old banned list; now it s closer...
2240d233Full $185,000 refunds offered to risky new gTLD applicants
ICANN is to offer applicants for three new gTLDs identified as too risky to go live full refunds of their application fees. Its board of directors acknowledged at its weekend retreat that it has no intention of...
2240d284Famous Four chair pumps $5.4 million into AlpNames to...
Famous Four Media chair Iain Roache has bought out his former COO s stake in AlpNames, its affiliated registrar, settling a lawsuit between the two men. He s acquired Charles Melvin s 20% stake in the company for £3.9...
2241d220Dual Master DNS Servers
Sorry if this is the wrong subreddit, but I want to know if I can have two or more master BIND DNS servers with an unlimited (or nearly) number of slaves? I have done a bit of research so I apologize if I missed a...
2241d220RFC 8312: CUBIC for Fast Long-Distance Networks
Longtemps après sa mise au point et son déploiement massif sur Linux, voici la description officielle de l'algorithme CUBIC, un algorithme de contrôle de la congestion dans TCP.
2241d210RFC 8303: On the Usage of Transport Features Provided by...
La famille de protocoles TCP/IP dispose d'un grand nombre de protocoles de transport. On connait bien sûr TCP mais il y en a d'autres comme UDP et SCTP et d'autres encore moins connus. Cette diversité peut compliquer la...
2241d217RFC 8304: Transport Features of the User Datagram Protocol..
Le RFC 8303, du groupe de travail TAPS (https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/taps/about/), décrit les fonctions et services rendus par les protocoles de transport aux applications. Ce RFC 8304 se focalise sur deux protocoles...
2241d190It's Hard To Change The Keys To The Internet And It...
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2242d252Why are you doing that Whois search? DENIC wants to know
In a taste of what might be coming under EU privacy legislation, DENIC wants you to jump through some new hoops before it lets you see Whois data. When doing a Whois query on its web site today, the German ccTLD registry...
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