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1d1dnssec question
so, I went to a domain today that used to exist, and it doesn't seem to anymore. which is odd because I worked for this company last week Friday, and I was a dns admin for a while and .. well, I know names don't just...
1d2Weird amount of visitors
Heya. I have a pretty weird IDN for myself that just forwards to one of my Spotify playlists. It’s been there for like five years. I use Cloudflare, and now they’re reporting some weird numbers. Top Traffic Locations...
1d5Securing Clusters that run Payment Systems
A few of our customers run payment systems inside Kubernetes, with sensitive data, ephemeral workloads, and hybrid cloud traffic. Every workload is isolated but we still need guarantees that nothing reaches unknown...
2d7Loads of firms flunk out of next-round gTLD back-end...
A surprising number of would-be back-end registry service providers have already been eliminated from ICANN s Registry Service Provider Evaluation Program for not submitting their applications in time. Program statistics...
2d3dns outage led me to a config pointing to 127.0.1.1 for...
Got woken up by alerts, DNS resolution had tanked for a few internal services. Traced it to a config file pointing production nameservers to 127.0.1.1. Apparently someone copied a localhost dev setup and pushed it...
3d4presidenttrump.xxx among thousands of dead .xxx domains...
Celebrities, politicians, tech bros, and hundreds of household brands are among the registrants of roughly 30,000 dormant .xxx domains that have suddenly awoke and found themselves live on the internet. The sudden...
3d3SPF/DKIM/DMARC records
Hi, can someone please point me to a best-practice/good documentation about SPF/DKIM/DMARC records to secure the mailflow of a domain? Greets submitted by /u/LLS71 [link] [comments]
3d5RFC 9773: ACME Renewal Information (ARI) Extension
Si vous utilisez Let's Encrypt (et tout le monde l'utilise, de nos jours), vous avez sans doute reçu les messages « Let's Encrypt Expiration Emails Update » qui vous préviennent que cette AC n'enverra plus de rappels...
3d2dnscheck.tools -- DNSSEC test extremely slow
Is anyone else experiencing the DNS security tests being extremely slow? It takes 60 seconds to complete on my Mac and Windows machines using both Firefox and Chrome. This has been over the past 30 days or so....
3d2Cannot access dnsleaktest.com
My isp and Verizon wireless dns cannot access dnsleaktest.com It says this site can’t be reached on my chrome browser. Any public dns works fine with this site. Anyone else seeing this? submitted by /u/kdbtiger [link]...
4d7One of the dumbest gTLDs just switched back-ends
Why does .blockbuster still exist, seriously? Old-timers such as your humble correspondent will recall Blockbuster as the once world-conquering video rental chain that spectacularly failed to adapt to adapt to the era of...
4d6Dynv6.com still viable?
Is anyone else using Dynv6.com ? Are you having success? I am seeing A records just spontaneously disappear. I tried contacting the support email, and radio silence. And the link to their community page doesn't work...
5d6Setting the DKIM records
Hey everyone, I switched my business to ProtonMail. I want all my stored emails to be protected from data breaches. It is set up with a custom domain, which mostly works well. I’m having one real issue. The mail...
6d8Vocês conhecem e usam o AGNER DNS?
Descobri ele recentemente, 100% brasileiro, BLOQUEIA ANÚNCIOS, MALWARES, BETS, CASSINOS e tem tambem uma versão que bloqueia CONTEUDO ADULTO. Estou usando ele em casa e na minha loja, principalmente pelo bloqueio de...
7d11RFC 9727: api-catalog: A Well-Known URI and Link Relation...
Les API réseau, c'est très bien. Tout le monde en fait aujourd'hui, typiquement bâties au-dessus de HTTP. Mais il est parfois difficile de s'y retrouver parmi toutes les API. « Je suis sûr que l'INSEE avait une API pour...
7d11RFC 9803: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) mapping...
Traditionnellement, les registres de noms de domaine publiaient toutes les informations des sous-domaines avec la même durée de vie maximale (TTL : Time To Live). Certain·es client·es demandent à pouvoir choisir un TTL...
7d12RFC 9794: Terminology for Post-Quantum Traditional Hybrid...
La cryptographie post-quantique vise à développer des algorithmes de cryptographie qui résistent à des ordinateurs quantiques. Mais ces algorithmes sont relativement récents et peuvent avoir des faiblesses, voire des...
7d9Incorrect DNS entry keeps recreating itself.
I have two DNS servers in my environment, both running Windows Server 2016. There is a Windows 11 computer that keeps getting an incorrect DNS entry created. Whenever I delete the DNS record out of both DNS server...
7d10Windows AD DNS Reverse Zone PTR entries not being updated?
Hi Mates! I am experiencing the following weird issue : I don't have static IPs here, I do have the DHCP offering leases to the clients (with no reservations for these clients). The mess here comes when a notebook is...
7d11GoDaddy loses .co to Team Internet
Team Internet is to take over back-end duties for .co, after agreeing to take less than half as much as GoDaddy was charging. The London-based company has teamed up on a joint venture, Equipo PuntoCo, with Panama-based...
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