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2703d236DNS Constantly crashing SBS 2011 Standard
Hi All, For months I've been dealing with a SBS 2011 server that has been having issues such as the DNS service not starting and users not being able to use network resources. I've attributed this incorrectly to the...
2703d264RFC 7970: The Incident Object Description Exchange Format...
Pour rendre plus facilement analysables les innombrables rapports d'incidents de sécurité qui circulent sur Internet tous les jours, ce RFC spécifie un format standard XML, nommé IODEF, pour décrire ces incidents. Ici,...
2704d334Ten things you didn’t know about the Umbrella roaming...
Ten things you didn’t know about the Umbrella roaming client. You may already know that the Umbrella roaming client is a small endpoint agent that provides on and off-network protection for Windows and Mac laptops. Here...
2704d275Short .at domain auction raises over $1m
Nic.at s three-stage auction of one and two-character .at domains has raised over $1 million. Auction house Sedo announced today that over 1,000 .at names were sold, for a combined total of over $1 million. The...
2704d281Donuts loses $22.5m .web lawsuit as judge rules gTLD...
The promise not to sue ICANN that all new gTLD applicants made when they applied is legally enforceable, a California judge has ruled. Judge Percy Anderson on Monday threw out Donuts lawsuit against ICANN over the...
2704d321Privacy risk under new domain transfer policy
ICANN s new domain Transfer Policy, which comes into effect tomorrow, creates risks for users of privacy/proxy services, registrars and others haved warned. The policy could lead to private registrants having their...
2704d282What is this CNAME from mail to . doing if I already have...
I'm moving the . and www records for a domain to a new web host. The DNS records currently show a CNAME record for mail that points at . We also have MX records set up that reference third-party mail servers. Do we need...
2704d26Tweets of November 30 2016
RT @fabxc: I repeat: Your alerts and dashboards belong into your SCM, not a random SQL database! Wed Nov 30 08:04:57 +0000 2016 CoreDNS is now a DNS proxy for the entire household here... Wed Nov 30 22:33:51 +0000 2016
2705d245CoreDNS monitoring with stunnel
This article can be seen as a follow up to Monitor with SSH and Prometheus, but in a different, hopefully, more simple way.1 Now I want to monitor CoreDNS running as a DNS to HTTPS proxy in my home network. In one word:...
2706d314Transferring domains gets more complex this week
A new anti-hijacking domain name transfer policy comes into effect this week at all ICANN-accredited registrars, potentially complicating the process of not only selling domains but also updating your own Whois records....
2706d256BSidesPDX/LA 2016
BSidesPDX Celebrating its third year, BSidesPDX took over the Oregon Convention Center in delightfully rainy Portland. Though one of the smaller BSides events, it s drawn the attention of many in the security community,...
2707d258RFC 8023: Report from the Workshop and Prize on Root...
Ce nouveau RFC est le compte-rendu d'un atelier qui s'était tenu du 8 au 10 mars 2014 à Londres sur le thème des « collisions ». Ce terme exagéré et sensationnaliste désigne le phénomène qui peut se produire quand un...
2708d273RFC 8003: Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Registration...
Le protocole HIP, décrit dans le RFC 7401 est très bien adapté au cas où l'adresse IP (le localisateur) change après l'établissement d'une association. Mais cela laisse ouvert le grand problème de la connexion initiale....
2708d275RFC 8004: Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Rendezvous...
HIP, par défaut, nécessite que l'initiateur d'une association connaisse le localisateur, l'adresse IP du répondeur. Si celui-ci bouge souvent, et qu'il n'est donc pas pratique de mettre cette adresse dans le DNS, une...
2708d263RFC 8005: Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Domain Name System...
Le protocole HIP n'avait pas à l'origine de mécanisme pour trouver l'identificateur d'une machine distante. Cela avait été fait dans le RFC 5205, qui permettait de trouver l'identificateur dans le DNS. Ce nouveau RFC...
2709d293GoDaddy in talks to buy massive registrar Host Europe –...
GoDaddy is reportedly talking to Host Europe Group, one of Europe s largest registrars, about an acquisition. Reuters today reported that the deal, should it go ahead, could be worth as much as $1.8 billion. GoDaddy has...
2709d341Searching for a DNS server, which can be connected with...
Hi guys, I an searching for a DNS server which can be connected with SQL, so I can store domains, records and stuff like that dynamically, this because I am working on a school. I already have found one, PowerDNS, does...
2711d298Amazon backtracks after pricing free Alexa list at over...
Amazon has reversed, at least temporarily, its decision to yank its free list of the world s most popular domains, after an outcry from researchers. The daily Alexa list, which contains the company s estimate of the...
2711d231ClouDNS Black Friday Promo
ClouDNS is having a Black Friday Promo, Twitter I have a free account, and the deal was 30% off AnyCast DNS. Anyone get any different offers? submitted by /u/quirky_name [link] [comments]
2712d258Event 5502
The DNS server received a bad TCP-based DNS message from 52.87.211.192. The packet was rejected or ignored. The event data contains the DNS packet. Most of what I read says to ignore this eventid...however, when I...
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