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4131d352Net::DNS 0.72 released
Minor bugfix release which resolves issues with TSIG introduced in 0.69.
4131d401.cat wants to ditch registrar ban
PuntCAT, the .cat registry, has become the first gTLD operator to apply to ICANN for the right to dump the registrar ownership ban in its contract. If the request is approved by ICANN, the company will be able to own an...
4132d351ICANN finally coming to London
ICANN is to visit the UK for the first time in its 15-year history, with one of its 2014 public meetings now confirmed for London. The organization is also planning to host its third meeting in Singapore, the city where...
4132d332jobcorps.gov Unreachable
The domain jobcorps.gov is currently unreachable on DNSSEC enabled resolvers. This is because the size of the DNSSEC record return is too large for the path MTU from the jobcorps.gov name servers. The domain owners have...
4132d390Vietnamese registrar on the ICANN naughty step
ICANN has issued a broad breach notice against Vietnamese domain name registrar Mat Bao. The company hasn t escrowed its registrant data as required since February, according to ICANN, and it owes over $4,500 in...
4132d411.co sees DUM grow by a quarter, renewals dip to 63%
.CO Internet said that domains under management in its .co TLD has grown by 24.39% so far in 2012, standing at about 1.4 million at the end of November. In a blog post last week, the repurposed Colombian ccTLD registry...
4132d425Swedish registry wins new gTLD testing contract
The registry operator for Sweden s .se ccTLD has been picked to provide pre-delegation testing for new gTLDs. ICANN announced at the weekend that Stiftelsen för Internetinfrastruktur has won the two-year contract, which...
4133d391gTLD Objector says .sex, .gay, .wtf are all okay
The Independent Objector for ICANN s new gTLD program has given a preliminary nod to applications for .sex, .gay, .wtf and six other potentially controversial applied-for strings. Alain Pellet this week told applicants...
4133d444Checking quickly a DNS zone: a new variant of check-soa
When you want to assert rapidly whether or not a DNS zone works fine, typical exhaustive tools like Zonecheck (http://www.zonecheck.fr/) may be too slow. There is room for a light-and-fast tool and many people used to...
4134d376Tubes: A journey to the center of the Internet
Contrairement à ce qu'on pourrait croire en prêtant attention aux niaiseries comme le discours sur le « virtuel » ou sur le « cloud  », l'Internet n'est pas un concept évaporé. Il s'appuie sur de grosses et lourdes...
4134d315peacecorps.gov Unreachable
The domain peacecorps.gov is currently unreachable on DNSSEC enabled resolvers. This is because the size of the DNSSEC record return is too large for the path MTU from the peacecorps.gov name servers. The domain owners...
4135d482RFC6781: DNSSEC Operational Practices, Version 2
An updated set of practices for operating the DNS with security extensions (DNSSEC).
4135d406A new keyboard
I've noticed for a while now that my typing has suffered tremendously: it's becoming slower, and I make more mistakes. I'm attributing this to the beautiful, flat Apple keyboard, so I thought I'd better do something...
4136d373Michael Niggli's Basler Brunsli
Michael Niggli recently posted a recipe for a Swiss Christmas cookie called Basler Brunsli . I reprint his recipe here without permission. The cookies are incredibly easy to bake and taste delicious. We've just baked a...
4136d370RIPE Labs: Conclusions Drawn from Reverse DNS Event
submitted by cmeerw [link] [comment]
4137d429RFC 6781: DNSSEC Operational Practices, Version 2
Comme avec toute technique fondée sur la cryptographie, le protocole DNSSEC impose, non seulement des bons algorithmes et une mise en œuvre correcte, mais surtout des procédures rigoureuses et soigneusement exécutées....
4137d392RFC 6821: Improving Peer Selection in Peer-to-peer...
Le trafic du pair-à-pair peut, on le sait, représenter une bonne part de l'activité d'un réseau, malgré les efforts de l'industrie du divertissement pour diaboliser cette technique. Il y a donc depuis plusieurs années de...
4137d376Master/Slave
Speachless.
4137d435Completely different: BIND 10
The #1 complaint I hear most from people about the BIND 9 name server (other than a ridiculous "it sucks" , which it certainly doesn't) is how horrible it's configuration file is. I've never understood that. Agreed, the...
4137d461Iran warns on 29 new gTLD bids
The Iranian government has filed late Early Warnings against 29 new gTLD applications, mostly on the basis that the applied-for strings are un-Islamic and unethical . Bids for .gay, .sex, .wine, .bet, .poker and others...
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