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4176d399Ansible presentation at NLUUG
I'm back from the one-day NLUUG Autumn Conference in Ede, The Netherlands. The topics this year focused on software development, but I was invited to give a talk about Ansible . Although this isn't terribly exciting...
4176d490PostgreSQL et les quantiles, via les « window functions »
Le SGBD PostgreSQL dispose de tas de fonctions utiles. Une relativement peu connue est le système des « window functions » qui agissent sur un découpage d'un ensemble de tuples, s'appliquant à chaque part découpée. Cela...
4177d364ICANN, Verisign and NTIA “ready for 100 new gTLDs per...
The three main entities responsible for managing the domain name system s root zone have confirmed that they re ready to add 100 or more new gTLDs to the internet every week. In a statement, (pdf), ICANN, Verisign and...
4177d388Trademark Clearinghouse “breakthrough” at private Brussels..
ICANN s various stakeholder groups reached a breakthrough agreement on the Trademark Clearinghouse for new gTLDs, according to attendees at a closed-doors meeting last week. The meeting in Brussels evidently saw...
4177d371New gTLD marketing conference coming to New York
Momentum Consulting has announced a conference focused on marketing with new gTLDs for New York City next March. The Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress is designed for brand managers, trademark lawyers and...
4178d371Face it: Your users are accessing company data over...
Most users just don’t grasp that there’s great risk associated with connecting to unsecured Wi-Fi networks. But, what can you do about it?
4178d353RFC 6783: Mailing Lists and non-ASCII Addresses
Depuis la sortie du RFC 6530 et de ses petits camarades, il existe désormais une solution normalisée pour avoir du courrier électronique complètement internationalisé (courrier-entierement-internationalise.html), y...
4178d435RFC 6726: FLUTE - File Delivery over Unidirectional...
Peut-on envoyer un fichier d'un ordinateur à un autre lorsque la liaison est unidirectionnelle, c'est-à-dire que les paquets ne voyagent que dans un sens ? Pas question de se servir de FTP ou de HTTP, qui reposent sur le...
4178d348RFC 6782: Wireline Incremental IPv6
Parfois, je me dis que si on consacrait tous les efforts qui ont été voués à écrire des RFC à propos d'IPv6 à déployer IPv6 au lieu d'expliquer comment le faire, ce protocole aurait remplacé IPv4 depuis longtemps......
4178d394Geo gTLD applicants make “public interest” case for...
ICANN s has reached out to governments supporting geographic gTLD applicants over the last week, urging them to submit formal comments on the proposed Draw mechanism for prioritizing applications. A barrage of...
4179d354addgadget.com Failing DNSSEC Validation
The domain addgadget.com is currently failing DNSSEC validation. The domain has a DS record published but does not have a corresponding DNSKEY. Comcast will be implementing a Negative Trust Anchor to allow the domain...
4180d360Chehade sets out 12-point plan for next six months
ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade has set out his goals for ICANN over the next six months in an open letter to the community. The ambitious 12-point to-do list includes finishing off the next Registrar Accreditation Agreement,...
4180d403Roussos sells his .home new gTLD application
In what I believe is the first instance of a new gTLD bid changing hands, CGR E-Commerce has sold off its .home application to another applicant. CGR is the Cyprus-based company controlled by prominent .music applicant...
4180d328Do DNS servers call other DNS servers by hostname or IP...
Let me give an example: lets say www.reddit.com has a DNS server which has an IP address of 1.1.1.1. The hostname of that DNS server is: dns1.edgesuite.com. I try to lookup www.reddit.com from my home computer; my ISP...
4181d429DNSSEC with PowerShell und dnscmd (on Windows 2012)
Windows 2012 can DNSSEC sign zones using the GUI Management tools . That works fine for a handfull of zones. But how about automation, signing hundreds of zones? Windows 2012 could be used as a "hidden master" DNSSEC...
4182d615An action plugin for Ansible to handle SSH host keys and...
SSH fingerprints in the DNS provide a method for an OpenSSH client to verify the fingerprint upon first contact with a host and, if the client's DNS is DNSSEC-validated, the OpenSSH client will by-pass asking a user for...
4182d328XML2RFC version 2, debian package
I essentially followed the debian guidelines . It needed some tweaks, but `dpkg-source was kind enough to tell me what I needed to type. For getting the thing signed, this was very helpful. So I now have a Debian...
4183d341New Release 1.14 of DNSSEC-Tools – Get It Now!
Recently at the ICANN 45 DNSSEC Deployment Workshop, we learned that the great folks over at the DNSSEC Tools project had just released a new version of their great package of DNSSEC-related tools.  The new version 1.14...
4183d414ICANN’s new gTLD fund at $352.3m
ICANN had $352.3 million in its new gTLD program bank account as of October 13, according to notes from a recent board meeting. The numbers suggest that ICANN had only spent about $6 million on the program since the...
4183d413TLDH expects gTLD auctions in second half of 2013
While some new gTLD portfolio applicants are trying to get their contention sets resolved as quickly as possible, Top Level Domain Holdings reckons auctions won t happen until the second half of 2013. In a trading update...
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