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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan-Piet Mens | 4099d | 685 | Automatic provisioning of slave DNS servers DNS zones are typically served by more than one server . One of these is called the master or primary and the 'copies' are called slave or secondary servers. The slave servers obtain zone data via a process called zone... |
| Comcast DNS | 4100d | 332 | www.clinicaltrials.gov Failing DNSSEC Validation The domain www.clinicaltrials.gov is currently failing DNSSEC validation in some areas. This is because the domain rolled it's keys and the old ones are still cached. The domain owners contacted us to make us aware of... |
| Comcast DNS | 4100d | 328 | www.medlineplus.gov Failing DNSSEC Validation The domain www.medlineplus.gov is currently failing DNSSEC validation in some areas. This is because the domain rolled it's keys and the old ones are still cached. The domain owners contacted us to make us aware of the... |
| Comcast DNS | 4100d | 341 | faa.gov Failing DNSSEC Validation (Fixed) The domain fas.gov was failing DNSSEC validation yesterday. This is because not all configured name servers were returning DNSSEC records, causing occasional validation failure. The domain owners contacted our team to... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4100d | 378 | Mystery gTLD applicant to take Google fight to lawmakers An as-yet unidentified new gTLD applicant plans to lobby Washington DC and Brussels hard to get dozens of Google s new gTLD bids thrown out of ICANN on competition grounds. Phil Corwin of the law firm Virtuallaw, who is... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 4101d | 525 | Bulk-querying of DNS SOA records Every zone in the DNS has a special record called the Start of Authority record, or SOA, and I have to periodically scan several hundred thousand SOA records against a set of authoritative servers to determine the SOA... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4101d | 384 | ICANN seeks more power over new gTLD registries When ICANN published a new draft of its basic Registry Agreement for wannabe new gTLD operators last week, much of the focus was on the new Public Interest Commitments mechanism, but a whole bunch of other big changes... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 4101d | 437 | sudo: bake me a cake I'm taking this cake along to try and make up for the recent sudoers fiasco . (And no: I didn't bake it myself .) |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4101d | 369 | ICANN terminates three registrars ICANN has pulled the plug on three accredited domain name registrars, saying they all failed to comply with an audit. Lime Labs, R Lee Chambers Company (DomainsToBeSeen.com) and Central Registrar (Domainmonger.com) have... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4101d | 387 | How .pw signed up more launch registrars than .xxx Directi has signed up more registrars for its launch of the .pw top-level domain than .xxx managed a year ago, crediting pricing and operating in new gTLD mode for its progress. Sandeep Ramchandani, business head of .pw... |
| OpenDNS Blog | 4101d | 423 | Fresh from the Umbrella Product Team: Improved Policy... The Umbrella Dashboard now features a more intuitive policy wizard. Check it out. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4102d | 420 | Google, L’Oreal execs tapped for new gTLD summit Executives from Google, L Oreal and The Boston Globe have been lined up to speak at the new gTLD marketing conference taking placing New York next month. Hal Bailey, director of Google s domains business, will speak on... |
| Stéphane Bortzmeyer | 4102d | 572 | Peut-on « débrider » sa connexion YouTube avec le DNS ? Une société (https://speed-dns.eu/) vient de clamer qu'elle pouvait « débrider gratuitement l'accès à certains sites comme Youtube qui est bridé par votre fournisseur d'accès à internet ». Est-ce possible ? Et, si oui... |
| DNS reddit | 4103d | 360 | Getting ISP's non-existing domain landing service even... If you're not familiar with a non-existing domain landing service it is a way that ISPs pervert their lookup servers to resolve IPs for non-existent domains. Do a lookup on a domain that doesn't exist, and you get the IP... |
| Stéphane Bortzmeyer | 4103d | 419 | Un peu d'ArchLinux Il existe des dizaines (des centaines ?) de systèmes d'exploitation autour du noyau Linux et des logiciels GNU (notez que je n'aime pas le terme de distribution Linux (distribution-linux.html), souvent employé). Il y a... |
| Stéphane Bortzmeyer | 4104d | 374 | RFC 6864: Updated Specification of the IPv4 ID Field Le champ "ID" (internet identification field) de l'en-tête des paquets IPv4 sert à plusieurs usages mais le plus connu est pour identifier les fragments d'un même datagramme original, afin de réassembler ce datagramme.... |
| Stéphane Bortzmeyer | 4104d | 363 | RFC 6869: vCard KIND:device Le format vCard (RFC 6350) de stockage de données structurées à propos d'une entité a surtout été utilisé pour des personnes (pour faire des carnets d'adresses) et des organisations. Le format standard définit une... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4105d | 453 | Closed gTLD debate threatens Google and Amazon Howls of criticism about Google, Amazon and others plans to grab huge swathes of new gTLD real estate and keep it to themselves seem to have spurred ICANN into action. A public comment period opened this week seeks... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4105d | 394 | .web lawsuit thrown out of court, “too generic” to be a... A California lawsuit that threatened to scupper all seven applications for the .web new gTLD has been thrown out. The judge in Image Online Design v ICANN yesterday granted ICANN s motion to dismiss the case, saying that... |
| DNS reddit | 4105d | 533 | Accidental DNS Zone Deletion So...today the network manager of the organization I work for accidentally deleted all of the DNS zones for the organization. Unfortunately, an authoritative restore did not actually end up working. Luckily, before all... |
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