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3418d301Low-maintenance split horizon DNS?
Currently several of our main domain names are manually replicated into our corporate windows DNS servers from our api-less DNS provider. As you can imagine, over the years we've got loads of discrepancies between both...
3419d272pointing third party DNS to zpanel domain on VPS?
I've tried googling this for days and I honestly couldn't find a legitimate answer. I'm running a VPS with Zpanel installed (CentOS 6.6) and created a domain. I want a third party DNS service, such as dottk or DNS4.pro...
3419d468Five Questions: Your Top Support Requests…Answered!
Hi, I’m Alexander Harrison, a customer support representative here at OpenDNS. My job is to ensure that all of your questions and challenges are met with the answers needed to get OpenDNS working for you. In this blog...
3419d282RFC 7397: Report from the Smart Object Security Workshop
Le 23 mars 2012, à Paris, a eu lieu un atelier sur la sécurité des objets « intelligents ». Ce RFC résume (bien après...) ce qui s'est dit pendant cet atelier.
3419d265RFC 7418: An IRTF Primer for IETF Participants
Ce court RFC est une introduction à une entité peu connue du monde de l'Internet, l'IRTF, Internet Research Task Force. Tellement peu connue qu'elle n'a même pas de page dans le Wikipédia francophone, c'est dire. L'IRTF...
3419d297Congrats To Norway’s .NO On Over 5,000 DNSSEC-Signed...
Congratulations to the Norid team on going live with DNSSEC for the .NO country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) this week!  You may recall we wrote about .NO being signed in the root zone of DNS back on November 18 (and...
3420d285Diverting recursor-to-auth attacks
We get frequent reports from users/customers about various DNS-related attacks they are facing on either their authoritatives or recursors. This post focuses on one kind of attack that involves both. The attack works...
3420d271Introduction à IPv6 à Lolut/UTBM
Le 11 décembre à l'UTBM à Belfort, j'ai eu le plaisir d'être invité par l'association libriste Lolut (https://ae.utbm.fr/lolut/) à parler d'IPv6. L'idée était une introduction à cete technique, avec notamment les aspects...
3420d319DANE Interim Meeting on Dec 2 Focused on Email and S/MIME
For those of you interested in tracking the evolution of the DANE protocol to add a DNSSEC-secured layer of trust to TLS certificates, the DANE Working Group within the IETF recently held an Interim Virtual Meeting via...
3421d389PowerDNS “Graphing as a Service”
Over the past few months,we ve worked on our graphing tool, which has proved to be a wonderful aid in debugging. If you want to get the best help from us in diagnosing your problems, read on. PowerDNS Authoritative...
3421d306Last resort gTLD auction loser wants share of $5m winning...
An unsuccessful new gTLD applicant wants ICANN to share the proceeds of its last resort auction with itself and the other losing applicants. Aesthetics Practitioners Advisory Network had applied for .salon, but found...
3421d311First live dot-brand switches back to .com
CITIC Group, which became the first company to dump .com for its new dot-brand gTLD, has switched back to .com. CITIC, a massive Chinese conglomerate, switched from citic.com to limited.citic in September, but a DI...
3421d319.ceo smartens up in new promo video
Struggling to find its tone? PeopleBrowsr has done a full 180 in its attempts to market .ceo through online commercials. In its latest video, the company has gone for a straightforward...
3421d295New .jobs contract based on new gTLD agreement
ICANN and Employ Media are set to sign a new contract for operation of the .jobs registry which is based heavily on the Registry Agreement signed by all new gTLD registries. .jobs was delegated in 2005 and its first...
3421d205OpenDNSSEC 1.4.7
Version 1.4.7 of OpenDNSSEC has now been released. Bugfixes: SUPPORT-147: Zone updating via zone transfer can get stuck (Håvard Eidnes) Crash on retransfer command when not using DNS adapters. Download:...
3423d249How to solve the naked domain problem and forward...
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3423d307.health backer has cop-like takedown powers for all gTLDs...
LegitScript, a US company focused on eradicating illegal online pharmacies, which backs the .pharmacy and .health gTLDs, has been given police-like powers to have domain names taken down in Japan. It has also emerged...
3423d245Retrieve MX records using nslookup
One of my new kids on the block asked me a question tonight; “Jermal, how do I get the mx record of a domain?” To retrieve mx record information we need to use a tool called nslookup which is available in Windows and...
3423d232Retrieve MX records using nslookup
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3423d299.love won by class action lawyers
It appears that the contested new gTLD .love has been won by the law firm Merchant Law Group, after an auction. Minds + Machines, Richemont, Google and Donuts have all officially withdrawn their competing applications. I...
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