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Miek Gieben2926d275CoreDNS Dogfood, part 2
CoreDNS is running as my DNS server for at least a week . That post was a bit light on the details, so find the complete Corefile that I m using attached to this post below. EDNS is now fixed and zones are reloaded...
Miek Gieben2926d342CoreDNS Dogfood, part 2
CoreDNS is running as my DNS server for at least a week. That post was a bit light on the details, so find the complete Corefile that I m using attached to this post below. EDNS is now fixed and zones are reloaded when...
Tony Finch2926d304Warning, incoming Dilbert
Just a quick note to say I have fixed the dilbert_zoom and dilbert_24 feeds (after a very long hiatus) so if you follow them there is likely to be a sudden spooge of cartoons.
DNS reddit2926d493TXT record 255 character limit with 2048-bit DKIM -...
We currently have our DNS hosted with a local data center. They do not have night coverage on DNS and it creates some major headaches for us as we cannot get anything changed in DNS from 5pm to 9am. I looked into using...
Stéphane Bortzmeyer2927d319RFC 7838: HTTP Alternative Services
Une nouveauté dans le monde HTTP : ce RFC décrit un mécanisme permettant d'indiquer des endroits alternatifs où trouver le contenu demandé. Ce n'est pas une classique redirection : l'URI reste le même, on découple...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2927d442Facebook bought a registrar
Facebook has acquired a domain name registrar, according to its point person in ICANN. Facebook domain manager Susan Kawaguchi said on tonight s GNSO Council teleconference, as a matter of disclosure, that Facebook...
DNS reddit2927d250Blast from the past: Found an old ARIN transfer request...
Was going through some old files on my computer when I found this ARIN form from when I was a DNS admin in the Web 1.0 days... 03/99 ARIN IP/ASN Transfer Request Template **************** Please DO NOT REMOVE Version...
OpenDNS Blog2927d322From Breach Fatigue to Breach Acceptance
Consumers are showing signs of accepting that data breaches are part of doing normal business and living life online. It s a trend that has been rising since possibly 2011, the first year of the breach. The idea of...
PowerDNS Blog2927d363dnsdist 1.0.0 Beta 1 released
We are pleased to announce the release of the first beta version of dnsdist, 1.0.0-beta1. We intend to release the final 1.0.0 version on April 21st, just in time for the UKNOF34 meeting. In addition to several bug-fixes...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2927d310Did the DotConnectAfrica judge make a big dumb mistake?
The court ruling that granted DotConnectAfrica a preliminary injunction preventing ICANN delegating .africa seems to be based to a huge error by the judge. In explaining why he was allowing DCA v ICANN to proceed,...
Tony Finch2928d749Using a different X11 window manager with XQuartz
(In particular, i3 running on a remote machine!) I have been rebuilding my workstation, and taking the opportunity to do some major housecleaning (including moving some old home directory stuff from CVS to git!)...
DNS reddit2928d256What happened next: the deprecation of ANY (CloudFlare...
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DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2928d301Afilias goes it alone with .green as DotGreen bows out
DotGreen Community has withdrawn from its partnership with Afilias, leaving the registry operating the .green gTLD solo. The new management means that renewal prices for sunrise names will be slashed, and the size of the...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2928d328It’s open season on ICANN as judge rules new gTLD...
DotConnectAfrica has won a California court ruling that will allow it to continue suing ICANN over its twice-rejected .africa gTLD application. District judge Gary Klausner ruled yesterday that the litigation waiver all...
Stéphane Bortzmeyer2929d337RFC 7842: Requirements for Improvements to the IETF Email...
Un des gros avantages de travailler à l'IETF est qu'il existe un ensemble d'outils de travail en groupe très perfectionnés, permettant de gérer un grand nombre de documents qui changent tout le temps. Dans la plupart des...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2929d299Domains “worth $3 million” put up for first industry...
The domain name industry is about to get a new type of conference. Domain broker Ryan Colby of Outcome Brokerage is to host what is believed to be the first domain hackathon , and says he already has domains he estimates...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2929d329No, .kids isn’t a community either
DotKids Foundation has comprehensively lost is .kids Community Priority Evaluation. The company s CPE results came out at the weekend (pdf), showing a score of 6 out of the 16 available points, a long way short of the...
OpenDNS Blog2930d271The Brief: April 4 – 10
This week on the Brief: Senators Burr and Feinstein take on encryption, hospitals brace for ransomware, and furries get some airplay. The post The Brief: April 4 10 appeared first on OpenDNS Blog .
DNS reddit2930d249BIND: constant queries in bind_query.log despite disabling..
In BIND, all night I have been seeing unending requests like this: 10-Apr-2016 23:39:50.097 queries: client ip-address #4444: query: domain.tld IN ANY +E It's the same domain in every instance. Not a domain I host....
Stéphane Bortzmeyer2931d324RFC 7828: The edns-tcp-keepalive EDNS0 Option
Historiquement, le DNS utilisait surtout UDP et le transport sur TCP ne servait qu'à des cas particuliers, comme lorsqu'un client DNS ré-essayait avec TCP de récupérer des données trop grosses pour UDP. Depuis le RFC...
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