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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DNS reddit | 50d | 14 | How to generate a secure, unique string for purposes of... I'm building a new application that leverages domain name ownership. I need to verify that the account owner has control of the domain name they claim to control. From what I've seen in the past, it seems the correct way... |
| DNS reddit | 50d | 17 | Zenitium DNS - a fork of Technitium DNS Hi there,
i wanted to share my Fork of Technitium DNS by Shreyas Zare for everyone who is interested.
I wrote the Maintainer of Technitium and shared my Repository with him, so he can use the code for his project.... |
| DNS reddit | 51d | 19 | Detecting DNS amplification attacks in real-time —... DNS open resolvers are commonly abused for amplification attacks (DNS floods). If you run any DNS infrastructure, you want to know about attacks within seconds, not after ISP notification.
Built ftagent-lite (open... |
| DNS reddit | 51d | 22 | Accidentally created an open resolver for a month,... submitted by /u/Droid_22
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| DNS reddit | 51d | 20 | DomainPreflight – browser-based DNS/email pre-flight... Built this after getting frustrated with tools that tell you your DNS records exist but don't tell you whether they'll actually work together.
What it checks in one place: PTR/rDNS validation SPF record lookup count... |
| Tony Finch | 51d | 20 | poached eggs A few weeks ago I was enjoying a couple of boiled eggs
(in the shell, with plenty of salt and pepper, and buttery fingers of toast to dunk into the runny yolk)
and pondering how fiddly it is to cut off one end of the... |
| DNS reddit | 52d | 16 | Local DNS submitted by /u/Minimum-Remove9215
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| DNS reddit | 52d | 16 | DNS Discovery and Redirection I went down the rabbit hole of encrypted DNS a little while ago, mainly prompted by the recent preview of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) in Windows DNS Server, and that led me to the wonders of SVCB and HTTPS records in DNS which... |
| DNS reddit | 52d | 12 | Name.com / Framer.com, A/CNAME not propagating/resolving Over a week ago I transferred my domain from a whitelabel tucows provider to name.com. Then I created A and CNAME records to point to my site host, framer.com. Since then, I've had issues with the domain not resolving.... |
| DNS reddit | 53d | 21 | Why would these be on my opendns if not being accessed? I was trying to figure out why these would be popping up under blocked if no one in my home was accessing these sites? It was only one day in the week so I don't think it's something that is possibly pinging from... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 53d | 15 | ICANN boss: no plans to scrap Oman meeting ICANN currently has no plans to cancel its 2026 Annual General Meeting, which is due to take place in Muscat, Oman, later this year, according to CEO Kurt Lindqvist. Speaking at the public forum at ICANN 85 in Mumbai... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 54d | 20 | PowerDNS DNSdist 2.1.0-beta2 Released Today we released the second beta version of what will become PowerDNS DN Sdist 2.1.0.
This new version brings a single fix since the first beta: the newly introduced Dynamic Block AllowedRCodeRatio could only be used... |
| DNS reddit | 54d | 22 | I almost clicked "15" instead of "13" in my DNSSEC options.. I'm assuming this is a bug, but the Icelandic hosting provider named 1984 Hosting Company advertises a free DNS service. When they introduced this service, they still encouraged people to pay for their hosting; of... |
| DNS reddit | 54d | 24 | Encrypted DNS and web filtering - Looking for guidance submitted by /u/_bx2_
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| DNS reddit | 54d | 24 | Windows DHCP Server using GSS-TSIG to BIND for DDNS:... We recently migrated from Windows DNS servers to BIND DNS servers. We want to enable secure updates for Dynamic DNS from our Windows DHCP server to BIND for all DHCP clients, using GSS-TSIG. We have it... |
| DNS reddit | 54d | 24 | Antivirus and Quad9 – DNS with encryption or without... Hi everyone,
I’m using an antivirus on Windows 11 Home and I want to switch my system DNS to Quad9. What I’m not fully sure about is whether I should use the encrypted version (DNS over HTTPS / DoH) or stick with the... |
| DNS reddit | 55d | 22 | Router DNS blocking Android private DNS? Network ignoramus here. I always have quad9 set as my private DNS hostname on my Android. The owner of the place I'm renting has NextDNS set up on the router. Everything has worked fine for 6 months but suddenly now I'm... |
| DNS reddit | 55d | 23 | A privacy-preserving protocol for age-verified web... This is my proposal for a voluntary, DNS-based system for age verification of websites. It would disclose no information to site operators and in my view be far preferable to the recently-legislated systems causing so... |
| ISC.org | 55d | 17 | Generalized DNS Notifications in BIND 9 A new configuration option, notify-cfg CDS, was added to BIND 9 in version 9. |
| DNS reddit | 55d | 17 | SVCB and HTTPS Niche stuff I know… submitted by /u/simondrawer
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