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3400d22Why You Want a Root Server Nearby, Even If You Have to...
There are three reasons why you want a root server near you:
3400d217Unbound 1.6.4 released
Unbound 1.6.4 contains key tag signaling RFC8145 support. B root is renumbered in the default root hints. The dnscrypt code supports the chacha cipher. The Unbound DNSSEC validator supports the ED25519 algorithm. The...
3401d234Les drôles de pratiques BGP d'un opérateur bulgare et...
Aujourd'hui, nous allons un peu regarder un drôle de problème BGP, et en n'utilisant que des sources ouvertes. L'infrastructure de l'Internet est en effet largement ouverte aux investigations.
3404d249Cybersquatting cases down in .uk
The number of cybersquatting complaints filed against .uk domains fell in 2016, according to data out this week from Nominet. The .uk registry said that there were 703 complaints filed with its Dispute Resolution Service...
3404d252PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.4 released!
Today we are releasing version 4.0.4 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. This release features a fix for the ed25519 signer. This signer hashed the message before signing, resulting in unverifiable signatures. Also on...
3406d251As .boots self-terminates, ICANN will not redelegate it
The dot-brand .boots may become the first single-dictionary-word gTLD to be taken off the market, as The Boots Company told ICANN it no longer wishes to be a registry. Boots, the 168-year-old British pharmacy chain, told...
3406d251GoDaddy launches security service after Sucuri acquisition
GoDaddy has revealed the first fruits of its March acquisition of web security service provider Sucuri. It s GoDaddy Website Security, what appears to be a budget version of the services Sucuri already offers on a...
3406d232Zero registrars pass ICANN audit
Some of the biggest names in the registrar game were among a bewildering 100% that failed an ICANN first-pass audit in the latest round of random compliance checks. Of the 55 registrars picked to participate in the...
3406d199RFC 8126: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations...
Un aspect peu connu du travail de normalisation est la nécessité de tenir des registres de certains paramètres, lorsque la liste de ces derniers n'est pas fixée dans un RFC. Par exemple, les algorithmes publiés dans le...
3407d261Sur une panne DNS, et sur les leçons à en tirer (BNP...
Ce matin du 20 juin, plein de messages sur les réseaux sociaux pour se plaindre d'une impossibilité d'accéder aux services en ligne de BNP Paribas. Le CM a bien du mal...
3408d250Sur la communication quantique (et les exagérations)
Dans un article publié dans Science (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6343/1140), un groupe de chercheurs annonce avoir réussi à transporter des photons intriqués sur plus de mille kilomètres. Mais ce n'est pas...
3408d18ISC DHCP Moves to MPL 2.0 License
We have decided to move ISC DHCP to the Mozilla Public License (MPL 2.
3413d16BIND 9 CVEs – Days from Report to Disclosure
Over the past five years, we have taken, on average, 32 days to publicly disclose a BIND vulnerability, from the time we receive the first report.
3414d306PowerDNS Authoritative 4.0.4 Release Candidate 1 released!
Because 4.0.3 is 5 months ago, and a lot has happened since (see the long changelog below), we are doing a release candidate for release 4.0.4. The full changelog looks like this: Bug fixes #5346: configure.ac: corrects...
3414d249PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.5 Released!
Today we are releasing version 4.0.5 of the PowerDNS Recursor. The most important change is the addition of the KSK-2017, the new root key for DNSSEC, that will be used to sign the root starting October 11th 2017 (read...
3414d232Unbound 1.6.3 released
Unbound 1.6.3 fixes an assertion failure when a malformed packet is received with 0x20 enabled.
3419d426dnstap, un journal de l'activité d'un serveur DNS
Comment voir en temps réel l'activité d'un serveur DNS, les requêtes qu'il reçoit et les réponses qu'il envoie ? Il existe plusieurs méthodes, cet article présent rapidement la plus récente, dnstap (http://dnstap.info/).
3419d28BIND and ISC DHCP Bug DB Opening for Guest Users
Update: to access the bug database, go to bugs.isc.org, click on the Guest login, and select bug-list for either DHCP or BIND 9.
3420d24I/O Efficient GZip Compression of Packet Captures
One of the major challenges with logging network traffic is that it is very disk I/O intensive.
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