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DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)596d68Registries have started shutting down Whois
Nominet seems to have become the first major registry services provider to start to retire Whois across its portfolio, already cutting off service for about 70 top-level domains. Queries over port 43 to most of Nominet s...
DNS reddit596d61Multi-master on Bind9
Hello party people, I've been messing around with bind9 for the past couple of days, and it's been great. I've not been able to get multi-master to work at all though. I'd like to have redundancy for my master. I've...
DNS reddit597d53Browsers in Win11 will not resolve reverse proxy
Hello, I've recently added a reverse proxy to my tailnet to access some apps I am hosting. I'm able to reach these apps through Brave, Safari, Firefox on both Fedora and macOS/iOS without issue, however browsers on...
Stephane Bortzmeyer597d43Si Einstein avait su
Alain Aspect raconte dans ce livre l'histoire des expériences qu'il a mené dans les années 1970-1980 et qui ont prouvé la violation des inégalités de Bell (en termes journalistiques « prouvé qu'Einstein avait tort »)....
DNS reddit597d57Unbound, DNSSEC, split horizon
Hi I am running Unbound 1.17.1 as a recursive caching DNS server for a small branch office. It has a typetransparent local-zone (example.com) overriding some of the public records. Problem is that enabling DNSSEC has...
DNS reddit598d71zns: CLI tool for querying DNS records with readable,...
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DNS reddit599d62Trying to check SRV records
Currently can't find any SRV lookup tool that can return any result for any domain. Very strange. Any insight, tool recommendations? submitted by /u/johnwayne__ [link] [comments]
DNS reddit599d61Is It Safe to use Google's dns
I recently discovered dns servers, and my friend swears it boosts your Internet speeds. On the other hand my other friend says it might not be safe. Is it possible for people to easily take data through a dns. I just...
Jan-Piet Mens599d67Notes to self on OctoDNS and its providers
I’ve been toying with OctoDNS quite a bit, first of all because I thought it would be efficient for wiring up NetBox DNS to actual DNS servers, and second because I very much like the concept. From the repository: In...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)599d50ICANN wins IRP because complainant literally doesn’t exist
An Independent Review Process panel has thrown out a case filed by a failed new gTLD applicant because the applicant was found to have not existed for almost seven years. A Bahrain-based company called GCCIX had applied...
DNS reddit599d75HomeDNS, a tiny box design to protect home network
HomeDNS is an open-source project designed to run on a Raspberry Pie. It will do its best to protect your home from malicious domains. It also has a dashboard where you can monitor your DNS traffic....
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)599d48.com could return to growth this quarter
Verisign might have some better news for investors and analysts when it delivers its first-quarter financial results it looks like .com might have turned a corner and returned to growth. The TLD has added over 540,000...
Stephane Bortzmeyer600d53Recommandations DNS lorsqu'on change d'adresse IP
Aujourd'hui, avec les mécanismes d'allocations d'adresses IP existants (cf. RFC 7020), il est relativement fréquent d'avoir à changer son adresse IP. Quelles sont les précautions particulières liées au DNS lors de ce...
Jan-Piet Mens600d77NetBox and Configuration Contexts/Templates
My latest discovery in NetBox is the possibility of creating configuration contexts which are merged into configuration templates to use for device provisioning. Contexts are hierarchical which means they can be merged...
DNS reddit600d90Setting Up a Portable Pihole On a VPS
Hi all, A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a bit about how to set up a Pi-hole on Oracle Cloud using OCI’s always free VPS tier. If anyone’s interested, here is where I explain how to provision one of these manually, and...
DNS reddit600d70Quad9 redirect (wrong) filecrypt.co to filecrypt.cc
I noticed that r/Quad9 redirects me a filecrypt.co url to a wrong .cc url e.g. https://filecrypt.co/Container/894060C200.html and even stranger, this behavior occurs on chrome based brower (i use vivaldi for example)...
Stephane Bortzmeyer601d49Fusion thermonucléaire et interprétation des annonces
Le 18 février, le CEA a annoncé avoir battu un record de durée de confinement pour du plasma. Aussitôt, des dizaines de personnes ont écrit des messages techno-béats et anti-écologistes, sans prendre la mesure de ce qui...
Miek Gieben601d57Format Go HTML templates
Because I was fed up with the lack of options (none), I write a tool that can format Go HTML templates: you can find it here. Includes screenshots! Formatting Go text templates is pure madness, but the above code works...
DNS reddit602d65My FOSDEM presentation: rDNS Map In Your Hands
I've created an rDNS map, available at https://reversedns.space/ It was not hard to do, but there was a lot of unusual and amusing stuff in the process. Video: https://youtu.be/0hDOr9Pp1-4 or...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)602d53Could Musk’s DOGE kill off D3’s .doge?
The creation of the US Department of Government Efficiency raises the possibility of a government objection to .doge, a gTLD that D3 Global has announced it plans to apply for. D3, a domain name consultancy that is...
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