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DNS reddit1d9OpenDNS Web Filter Review
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DNS reddit2d11Network Protocols and Their Use
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Ask Mr. DNS2d9Episode 58
Another year brings another Inside Baseball event, where an ad hoc group of DNS industry insiders get together for a day to talk about current issues and then go to a baseball game (really). So many DNS-knowledgeable...
Jan-Piet Mens3d9A word or two about a $EDITOR
Wherever possible I use vi or a newer incantation of it called vim , but I try to stick to low common denominators so that my editing is “portable” across platforms. I learned vi the hard way, on a terminal for which...
PowerDNS Blog3d12PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 2
We are pleased to announce the second Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.2.0. Many of our users have given RC1 a spin, and we very much appreciate their feedback. RC2 contains a host of minor robustness...
DNS reddit3d12SOA the second half
``` $ drill soa ns1.your-server.de ;; - HEADER - opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 49124 ;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;; ns1.your-server.de. IN SOA ;;...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)4d14New gTLD registry is latest billion-dollar unicorn
A new gTLD registry that used a different new gTLD for its original web site has merged to form a new company valued at a billion dollars using a new brand in a third new gTLD. Combell Group announced this week that it...
PowerDNS Blog4d15PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.14 Released
This is a maintenance release that adds two counters for the number of queries received with the AD and CD bit set. The counters are named dnssec-authentic-data-queries and dnssec-check-disabled-queries, respectively....
DNS reddit5d20Run adblocking secure dns forwarder in Docker
I wrote this guide a while back and think it might be useful for someone else https://github.com/yegle/your-dns Basically, this is a docker-compose file that will run pihole/unbound/stubby etc for you and provide an...
Stéphane Bortzmeyer5d12RFC 8610: Concise Data Definition Language (CDDL): A...
Le format de données binaire CBOR, normalisé dans le RFC 7049, commence à avoir un certain succès. Il lui manquait juste un langage de schéma, permettant de décrire les données acceptables (comme Relax NG ou XML Schema...
DNS reddit5d22Is Cloudflare the best option for a private DNS?
Hi guys, I'm pretty much clueless about these things so figured this would be the best place to ask a hopefully simple question, I find researching this topic pretty hard for some reason. Long story short, my communist...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)6d17PwC wants to be your Whois gatekeeper
PricewaterhouseCoopers has built a Whois access system that may help domain name companies and intellectual property interests call a truce in their ongoing battle over access to private Whois data. Its new TieredAccess...
DNS reddit6d25How to Prevent DNS Tunneling?
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DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)6d15.wang cut off with Chinese red tape
The registry behind .wang and several Chinese-language gTLDs has seen its official registry web site blocked due to Chinese regulations. Zodiac Registry, which also runs .商城, .八卦 and .网店 ( mail , gossip and shop ), has...
DNS reddit6d23DNS hijacking. DNS hijacking is a serious online threat...
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DNS reddit7d16DNSSEC Validation - Windows Server DNS
I am trying to implement DNSSEC validation on my Windows DNS servers, but I am so far unable to add the root trust anchor, instead being given vague errors. I tried to add the root's anchor automatically through Windows...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)7d17This latest Chinese bubble could deflate ccTLD growth
With many ccTLD operators recently reporting stagnant growth or shrinkage, one registry has performed stunningly well over the last year. Sadly, it bears the hallmarks of another speculative bubble originating in China....
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)7d17Dodgy registrars could be banned from .org promotions
The worse a registrar is at tackling abuse, the more likely it is to be excluded from promotions in the .org space, according to a new policy from Public Interest Registry. The .org registry said today that it is...
DNS reddit8d19Weird DNS requests coming from my home network
So I found this today, dns requests where acting strangely slow so I went over to my OpenDNS dashboard to check up on it. The First thing i noticed was over 12k DNS requests in one day! (See Image) I then went to look at...
Stéphane Bortzmeyer8d17Qu'est-ce qu'une archive du Web ?
Ce très court livre décrit ce qu'est une archive du Web, et les diverses questions que soulève le problème « faut-il conserver tout ce qui a été un jour publié sur le Web et, si oui, comment, notamment compte-tenu de la...
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