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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2437d | 335 | Dynamic DNS update on self after DHCP One of the labs my future Ansible training students will be running on the new FreeBSD training machine will be setting up a Gitea instance in a jail, and in order to access that instance with a Web browser they’ll need... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2438d | 400 | Covid-19: It’s official, domainers are faster than... The .com domains matching the new name of Coronavirus were registered today before even the first news reports emerged. The World Health Organization today officially named the deadly disease Covid-19. CO for Corona, VI... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2439d | 276 | My small Ansible inventory poll I’m rewriting portions of the Ansible training I do, and I noticed that I pay little attention to the YAML inventory format. I start by teaching the so-called INI file format, and later do an overview over what dynamic... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2439d | 315 | ICA will help you support .com price increases (but... The Internet Commerce Association has released a new version of its semi-automated commenting tool, making it a bit easier for domainers and others to complain to ICANN about the proposed .com price increases.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2440d | 329 | .gay hires pop star equality campaigner as spokesperson Top Level Design has hired a pop musician with a history of gay rights activism and anti-bullying work as its new spokesperson for .gay, which launches today. Logan Lynn has a 20-year career as a musician and TV... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2440d | 289 | Watch: climate change denier on why she trusts .org more... This isn t news, but I found it amusing, irritating, and slightly confusing a clip of a climate change denier rubbishing a scientific article because it appears on a .com domain rather than a .org. The video below,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2440d | 303 | Ethos’ .org pricing promise may be misleading The more Ethos Capital protests that its plans for .org pricing are not as bad as its critics think, the less I believe it. Since November, the would-be buyer of Public Interest Registry has being publicly committing to... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2442d | 246 | Reading and writing Ansible vault files Today I learned via Tristan about a library which is able to read and write Ansible vault files. I had a quick look because this might come in handy. #!/usr/bin/env python3.7 from ansible_vault import Vault vault = Vault... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2442d | 298 | Hacking claims resurface as .hotel losers force ICANN to... The fight over .hotel has been escalated, with four unsuccessful applicants for the gTLD whacking ICANN with a second Independent Review Process appeal. The complaint resurrects old claims that a former lead on the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2443d | 322 | ICANN refuses to release more info on .org deal ICANN has denied a request from one of its overseers to release more information about the acquisition of .org manager Public Interest Registry. General counsel John Jeffrey has written to the Address Supporting... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2444d | 321 | Possibly the strangest new gTLD acquisition yet The company running .icu has taken over a similar-sounding but ugly dot-brand from a Chinese games company. ShortDot took over the ICANN registry agreement for .cyou from a Chinese games company in November, recently... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2444d | 273 | California .org probe — existential crisis or blessed... Does the California attorney general s probe into ICANN s relationship with the .org registry represent an existential crisis for ICANN, or could it be better seen as a great opportunity to palm off responsibility to a... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2445d | 365 | As Cancun looms, ICANN bans China travel because of... ICANN has banned its staff from travelling to China because of Coronavirus. The organization said at the weekend that it has implemented the ban, which includes connecting flights of an abundance of caution . The ban... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2445d | 350 | XYZ expands gTLD stable as L’Oreal exits the domain game XYZ.com has acquired four new gTLDs from the cosmetics company L Oreal. The portfolio registry expanded its stable with the additions of .makeup, .beauty, .hair and .skin, all of which had their contracts change hands... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2447d | 248 | First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0 Hello!, We are proud to announce the first release candidate of what should become PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0. Compared to the second beta release, this release fixes a few RPZ related bugs. Additionally, a few other minor... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2450d | 273 | PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0-beta1 Hello! We are proud to announce the first beta release of what should become PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0. So far this is mostly a maintenance release. A lot of internals have been reworked, with some visible changes for... |
| Miek Gieben | 2450d | 54 | Tweets of January 31 2020 Replying to @craig_tracey https://github.com/coredns/coredns/issues/1999 Fri Jan 31 09:17:00 +0000 2020 Replying to @toraton it can work, but it still DNS so you re at the mercy of clients. Also k8s networking is fubar,... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2452d | 271 | RFC 8701: Applying Generate Random Extensions And Sustain... Ce nouveau RFC s'attaque à un problème fréquent dans l'Internet : des programmeurs paresseux, incompétents ou pressés par les délais imposés mettent en œuvre un protocole normalisé (comme TLS) sans bien lire les normes,... |
| ISC.org | 2454d | 10 | Meet an ISC Engineer - Peter Davies! To let our community learn a little more about some of the people behind the software you use every day, we are presenting short profiles of some of our engineers and other staff members. |
| ISC.org | 2459d | 12 | SELinux Struggles with BIND Startup We have recently identified several SELinux-specific issues with our BIND RPM packages. |
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