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3534d355delv, le futur outil principal de déboguage de DNSSEC ?
La version 9.10 de BIND vient avec un nouvel outil de déboguage en ligne de commande, delv. Qu'apporte-t-il par rapport à dig ? C'est surtout pour ce qui concerne DNSSEC qu'il est utile.
3534d346OpenWRT and Open Wireless: Bringing IPv6 and DNSSEC to End..
Interesting things are happening in the home router space. On July 14th, the OpenWRT project released a new version of their software. Called Barrier Breaker , or 14.07-rc1, this is the first open router firmware release...
3534d254Deploy360@IETF90, Day 5: HOMENET, SIDR, TRANS and GROW…...
You might think the final day of IETF 90 might be a bit quieter for us but in fact the morning session from 9:00-11:30 EDT has three sessions happening simultaneously that are related to the work we do (HOMENET, SIDR and...
3535d310Problem with IPv6 and presumably DNS
I'm in the middle of setting up my trusted fileserver to host a little personal website/VPN and I've run into a couple of problems that are presumably related to my DNS setup. Here's the situation: I only really get an...
3535d238Question: Do DNS queries include full URLs?
If you enter into your address bar www.reddit.com/r/dns Does that full string pass to the DNS server? Or just the www.reddit.com part? Sorry for the noob question but wireshark is making it difficult for me to...
3535d268Deploy360@IETF90, Day 4: 6LO, DNSSD, SUNSET4 and Learning...
Today at IETF 90 we on the Deploy360 team will be starting the day focusing on the Internet of Things (IoT) as we listen to what is being discussed in the 6LO working group.  Formally titled IPv6 over Networks of...
3535d329NYC picks Panama registrar for reserved names
The City of New York is working with Panama-based registrar CCI REG to reserve government-related domains in the new .nyc gTLD, despite imposing residency requirements on registrants. CCI REG director Gerardo Aristizabal...
3536d277RFC 7301: Transport Layer Security (TLS) Application-Layer..
On le sait, désormais, tout l'Internet tourne sur le port 443 (et aussi sur 80 mais de moins en moins, en raison des révélations de Snowden). C'est en effet l'un des rares ports dont on peut être sûr qu'il est à peu près...
3536d319ICANN looking for chief registrant advocate (but there’s a..
ICANN is looking for a Registrant Services Director somebody to advocate for the rights of registrants within the organization. It s a paid staff position, reporting directly to Global Domains Division president and...
3536d350ccTLD anger over IANA group “capture”
Operators of dozens of ccTLDs are said to be furious that they don t have representation on the group coordinating the transition of the IANA functions from US oversight. The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination...
3537d255RFC 7290: Test Plan and Results for Advancing RFC 2680 on...
Le RFC 2680 normalise une métrique utile à l'analyse des performances des réseaux informatiques, le taux de perte de paquets (mesuré sur un aller simple). Pour faire avancer ce RFC sur le chemin des normes, pour qu'il...
3537d283Spoiler Alert! You Are Under Attack
You may have heard that targeted attacks are on the rise—businesses are constantly under attack. The challenge that security professionals face is too much noise, and at the end of the day, it’s pretty hard to determine...
3537d277Deploy360@IETF90, Day 2: DNSOP, DANE, UTA, V6OPS, IDR,...
Today seems to be DNS Day here at IETF 90 in Toronto with the two major DNS-related working groups we follow here at Deploy360, DNSOP and DANE, both meeting on the same day.  We ve also got V6OPS meeting again (as they...
3538d289How does the "primary name server" SOA value work?
I feel silly, but I can't find the answer to this anywhere, even in the RFC spec (I didn't read the whole thing, no). If a domain has a primary name server record in the SOA that doesn't have a matching nameserver record...
3538d548OpenDNSSEC 1.4.6
Version 1.4.6 of OpenDNSSEC has now been released: Updates: Signer Engine: Print secondary server address when logging notify reply errors. Build: Fixed various OpenBSD compatibility issues found by Patrik Lundin...
3538d356OpenDNSSEC 1.3.18
Version 1.3.18 of OpenDNSSEC has now been released: Updates: OPENDNSSEC-620: conf.xml: New options: PidFile for both enforcer and signer, and SocketFile for the signer. Build: Fixed various OpenBSD compatibility issues...
3538d323Domain “slammer” finally gets suspended by ICANN
The beneficiary of the long-running Domain Registry of America scam is finally at risk of losing its ICANN accreditation. ICANN has suspended Brandon Gray Internet Services, which does business as NameJuice.com, due to...
3538d307.tk passes 25 million domains
The .tk registry has become only the second TLD to pass 25 million domain names. Netherlands-based Dot TK passed the milestone at the weekend, according to statistics posted on its web site, and today has 25,068,128...
3538d300That’s all folks! Final gTLD app gets approved
ICANN has finally finished evaluation all 1,930 new gTLD applications from the 2012 round. Indian conglomerate Tata Group s dot-brand .tata passed Extended Evaluation (pdf) on Friday, having apparently secured the...
3538d296Deploy360@IETF90, Day1: v6OPS, DNSSEC in SIPCORE, 6TISCH...
Today here in Toronto at IETF 90 the main activity for the Deploy360 team will be the IPv6 Operations (V6OPS) session happening at 9:00am EDT this morning.  The V6OPS agenda  shows that today there will be three larger...
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