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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
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| PowerDNS Blog | 2503d | 335 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.1 Released This is a maintenance release that fixes a few issues. In particular, a very slow creeping memory leak is plugged and an rare failure to resolve specific names when the dnssec configuration is set to validate has been... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2505d | 393 | Add address of FreeBSD iocage jail to PF table I’ve only just started using FreeBSD jails, so bear with me, but I believe this is workable, at least “it works on my machines”.
I suddenly noticed that iocage jails couldn’t “speak” to the Internets when they used... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2505d | 377 | AlpNames died months ago. Why is it still the... Despite going out of business, being terminated by ICANN, and losing all its domains several months ago, defunct AlpNames is still being listed as the world s most-abused registrar by a leading spam-fighting... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2505d | 373 | Ethos promises to keep .org for many many many many years Ethos Capital doesn t plan to flip .org manager Public Interest Registry any time soon, according to its CEO. Erik Brooks said that private equity firm Ethos, which intends to buy PIR from the Internet Society for over a... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2506d | 278 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.15 Released This is a maintenance release that fixes a few issues. In particular, a very slow creeping memory leak is plugged and an rare failure to resolve specific names when the dnssec configuration is set to validate has been... |
| ISC.org | 2506d | 11 | Encrypted DNS: Why all the drama about DOH? Two years ago, interest in DNS Encryption was lukewarm In May of 2018, ISC did a survey asking our users about their interest in deploying various DNS privacy measures, including both QNAME minimization and encryption... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2507d | 280 | RFC 8674: The "safe" HTTP Preference Ce nouveau RFC définit une nouvelle préférence qu'un client HTTP peut envoyer au serveur. « "safe" » (sûr) indique que le client ne souhaite pas recevoir du contenu qu'il trouve contestable. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2508d | 335 | Amid .org controversy, Cerf predicts the death of all... As the debate about the sale by the Internet Society of .org registry PIR to a private equity company passionately continues, one reason put forward to defend the deal doesn t appear to have been given much attention: it... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2508d | 354 | #SaveDotOrg to hold public web conference tomorrow with... The two top executives at Ethos Capital are due to confront non-profits that want to stymie its $1.13 billion acquisition of Public Interest Registry on a public call tomorrow. The call has been put together by NTEN, a... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2508d | 288 | As pricey .new launches, Google reveals first set of... Google Registry has opened up its .new gTLD for registration for the first time, but whether you get to buy one or not will depend on a team of Google judges. The company opened up its Limited Registration Period on... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2508d | 307 | Three more dot-brands fizzle out. Total now 69, dudes Three more dot-brand registries have opted to kill off their own gTLDs, bringing the total to date to 69. The three self-terminating gTLDs, which all informed ICANN of their intentions in October and November, are: .工行... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2508d | 309 | DoH: (Anti-)Competitive and Network Neutrality aspects Much has already been written on how moving to centralised DNS is bad for our privacy in 2019, and on that basis alone centralizing our DNS on a few large cloud providers seems like a bad idea. In this post, I want to... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2509d | 318 | Are ISOC’s claims about .org’s history bogus? The Internet Society has started to fight back against those trying to put a stop to its $1.13 billion sale of Public Interest Registry to Ethos Capital. Among the tactics being deployed appears to be an attempt to play... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2510d | 348 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.1 Released This release fixes several bugs and makes a few features more robust or intuitive. It also contains a few performance improvements for API users. Please see the changelog for more details. The tarball (signature) is... |
| Miek Gieben | 2512d | 60 | Tweets of November 30 2019 Replying to @tompusateri 3a:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32) w/ firmware-atheros 20190917-1 (works flawlessly in 5.3.x) Sat Nov 30 08:13:46 +0000 2019 RT... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2513d | 311 | OwnTracks on macOS More than six years have gone by since we created OwnTracks , and we believe our Open Source Android and iOS apps are quite popular for doing all manner of interesting things.
Christoph has been very diligent on our... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2514d | 300 | RFC 8689: SMTP Require TLS Option Ah, la sécurité, c'est toujours compliqué. Pour le courrier électronique, par exemple, SMTP peut être fait sur TLS, pour garantir la confidentialité et l'intégrité du message. Mais TLS est optionnel. Cela entraine deux... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2515d | 302 | Criminal .uk suspensions down this year Nominet suspended fewer .uk domain names due to reports of criminality in the last 12 months that in did in the prior period. The registry said last week that is suspended 28,937 domains in the year to the end of... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2515d | 329 | Governments kill off another gTLD bid Another proposed new gTLD has been killed off by governmental intervention. A Thailand-based company call Better Living Management Company applied for .thai back in 2012, but quickly ran into opposition from the Thai... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2515d | 329 | Four big developments in the .org pricing scandal The renewal of Public Interest Registry s .org contract and its subsequent acquisition by Ethos Capital is the gift that keeps on giving in terms of newsworthy developments, so I thought I d bundle up the most important... |
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