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2385d12BIND 9 RFC Compliance
BIND 9 is striving for strict compliance with IETF standards. We believe current versions of BIND 9 comply with the following RFCs, with the caveats and exceptions listed in the numbered notes below.
2387d230Culture numérique
Elle est loin, l'époque où l'Internet et le numérique en général, était ignoré des enseignants et des chercheurs en SHS. Désormais, il y a plein de livres étudiant tel ou tel aspect du réseau. Mais tous ne sont pas bien...
2387d211Zulu time in the macOS status bar
There are plenty of clock apps in the macOS app store, but most of the ones I’ve looked at are too feature rich and can display loads of information I’m not really interested in. What I’ve been looking for is a narrow...
2388d11Domain Hijacking - Problem and Protection Webinar - April...
Domain hijacking is becoming increasingly prevalent in the ever-evolving threat landscape.
2388d11Kea Performance Testing and the Impact of Multi-Threading...
Learn how ISC has been benchmarking the Kea DHCP server as we work on performance improvements.
2389d246BREAKING: ICANN’s number two Cyrus Namazi quits. Probably...
The head of ICANN s Global Domains Division, Cyrus Namazi arguably ICANN s number-two exec has resigned from the organization, according to multiple sources. I believe it s related to allegations of sexual...
2389d220RFC 8767: Serving Stale Data to Improve DNS Resiliency
Ce nouveau RFC autorise les résolveurs DNS à servir des « vieilles » informations aux clients (« vieilles » parce que le TTL est dépassé), si et seulement si les serveurs faisant autorité ne sont pas joignables (par...
2390d215RFC 8773: TLS 1.3 Extension for Certificate-Based...
L'authentification dans TLS se fait typiquement, soit à partir d'un certificat, soit par une clé partagée à l'avance. Ce nouveau RFC spécifie une extension de TLS qui permet d'utiliser ces deux méthodes en même temps.
2390d231RFC 8773: TLS 1.3 Extension for Certificate-Based...
L'authentification dans TLS se fait typiquement, soit à partir d'un certificat, soit par une clé partagée à l'avance. Ce nouveau RFC spécifie une extension de TLS qui permet d'utiliser ces deux méthodes en même temps.
2390d61Tweets of March 31 2020
Once an SRE, always an SRE. I m trying to automate (mostly via tests) every style nit that shows up in CoreDNS and isn t caught by the standard go tooling. Like this:...
2390d263ICANN grants Verisign its price increases, of course
ICANN has given Verisign its ability to increase .com prices by up to 7% a year, despite thousands of complaints from domain owners. The amendments give Verisign the right to raise prices in each of the last four years...
2390d275ALL .za domains have to link to government coronavirus web..
The South African government has decreed that every web site using a .za domain name must now carry a link to an official government coronavirus advice site. The regulation (pdf), which largely focuses on other types of...
2393d269Tales from the wood
Tales from the wood est un recueil de nouvelles, qui reprennent des thèmes de contes de fée, mais les adaptent, souvent dans un sens plus noir.
2394d245RFC 8749: Moving DNSSEC Lookaside Validation (DLV) to...
DLV (DNSSEC Lookaside Validation) était un mécanisme permettant de contourner le fait que plusieurs zones DNS importante, dont la racine, n'étaient pas signées. Jamais très utilisé, et aujourd'hui inutile, DLV est ici...
2394d275Namecheap and others banning coronavirus domains
Anyone wanting to buy a coronavirus-related domain for scamming purposes won t be able to do it via Namecheap, which has preemptively banned keyword domains on its storefront. For the last several days, the registrar has...
2394d300Go here to help fight against coronavirus abuse
A coalition of over 1,000 security experts, domain name providers and others have got together to help coordinate efforts to combat abusive coronavirus-related domains. A workspace on the collaboration platform Slack has...
2395d295As it releases free download, DomainTools says 68,000...
More than 68,000 coronavirus-related domain names have been registered so far in 2020, according to data released by DomainTools today. The domain intelligence services company has started publishing a list of these...
2395d270No .com price increases this year. Thanks, coronavirus!
Verisign won t increase prices on .com or any of its other TLDs this year. The promise comes as part of a package of coronavirus-related measures the company announced on its blog yesterday. Verisign said: In order to...
2396d258US officials gunning for coronavirus domains
US state and federal law enforcement are pursuing domain names being used to push bogus products and misinformation related to coronavirus Covid-19. In separate actions, the US Department of Justice forced Namecheap to...
2397d247Nominet to intercept dangerous coronavirus domains
Nominet, the .uk registry, will start providing informational landing pages when it suspends domains for criminal behavior including coronavirus-related scams. The company already suspends tens of thousands of domains...
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