Latest posts

Blog Age Hits Title
4216d391Test
Summary: test CVE: test Document Version: test Posting date: 11 Sep 2012 Program Impacted: AFTR Versions affected: test Severity: Minor Exploitable: test Active exploits: None known at this time. Legal Disclaimer:...
4216d371S4 con: A success
In March of this year I relocated to San Francisco to join OpenDNS. Much to my satisfaction, I soon found that this city and the surrounding Bay Area has a substantial security community, comprised of researchers,...
4216d348students.gov Failing DNSSEC Validation
The domain students.gov is currently failing DNSSEC validation. The domain recently updated the RRSIG records with a DNSKEY not in the chain of trust. The domain owner has been contacted and made aware of the issue. The...
4216d424Key-Systems adds parking API to RRPproxy
Top-ten registrar KeyDrive has delivered on a major piece of integration work following the merger of Key-Systems and NameDrive last year. Key-Systems today announced that its RRPproxy reseller platform now has API...
4217d432ICANN dragging its feet on new gTLD refunds?
Former new gTLD applicants are having to wait for months to have their deposits refunded by ICANN, according to two companies that withdrew applications before Reveal Day. One company withdrew four applications and...
4217d534Log key fingerprints used to login via SSH
Logging in to an SSH server as root is a no-no in many organizations because they want to be able to audit which "real" user actually accessed the server. So a typical scenario is a user connects with a private key to...
4217d473Secret ICANN briefing fuels IGO new gTLDs debate
The Universal Postal Union, newly installed .post registry manager, has launched a withering attack on ICANN for protecting some intergovernmental organizations and not others. Its salvo follows the release of briefing...
4217d413Go Daddy planté, une des plus grosses pannes dans le DNS
Go Daddy est de loin le plus gros bureau d'enregistrement de ".com" et de nombreux autres TLD. Il sert aussi d'hébergeur DNS. Ce soir, tous leurs serveurs de noms sont injoignables, entraînant l'impossibilité de joindre...
4219d326Speaking in Montenegro about DNSSEC on September 12
On Wednesday of this week I ll be speaking about DNSSEC at the 5th international conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe in Budva, Montenegro.  I m very much looking forward to...
4220d504.NL Becomes First TLD To Pass 1 Million DNSSEC-Signed...
History was made today in the ongoing effort to deploy DNSSEC globally and bring about a more secure Internet - .NL became the first top-level-domain (TLD) to pass 1 million DNSSEC-signed domain names! Celebrated in...
4220d458RFC 6729: Indicating Email Handling States in Trace Fields
Lorsqu'on débogue un problème de courrier électronique en examinant un message reçu, le technicien regarde souvent en premier les champs "Received:" de l'en-tête. Ceux-ci indiquent les différents MTA qui ont pris en...
4220d309.gov Failed DNSSEC Validation
On 9/2/12, the New York area .gov name servers had expired signatures. This caused all .gov domains to be unresolvable if utilizing a DNSSEC validating recursive resolver querying the New York .gov name servers. It was...
4220d472Big brands ask US for published list of known...
A public, published list of repeat cybersquatters was among the demands that the trademark lobby took to a meeting with the US government in Washington DC yesterday. The summit, hosted by the Department of Commerce, was...
4220d429OpenDNSSEC 1.4.0b1
Version 1.4.0b1 of OpenDNSSEC has now been released. This version is recommended for testing only, not for use in production environments. Updates: OPENDNSSEC-130: libhsm: The PIN is now optional in conf.xml. The PIN can...
4221d435Seventh new gTLD bid withdrawn
ICANN has now received seven requests to withdraw new gTLD applications, according to documentation published today. While we learned today that Google and KSB AG are behind four of the junked bids, the identities of the...
4221d448ICANN’s seven-point test for borked new gTLD bids
ICANN has published a set of seven criteria for judging whether new top-level domain applicants should be allowed to change the details of their applications. The test is designed to enable applicants to correct stupid...
4221d426Google junks three of its new gTLD applications
The identities of the first four new gTLD applications to be withdrawn have been revealed by ICANN. Google has, as predicted, dropped its bids for .and, .are and .est, because they re protected three-letter country-codes...
4221d495Souriez, vous (enfin, votre résolveur DNS) sert à la...
Depuis ce matin, une bonne partie des visiteurs de ce blog participe (involontairement) à une expérience de mesure du déploiement de la validation DNSSEC.
4221d452New data center live: Hong Kong
Our new Hong Kong server location adds redundancy in the Asia Pacific region and instantly improves speed and performance.
4221d402Field Reports: Why cutting-edge technology companies rely...
Ilium Software selects OpenDNS Enterprise for reliable protection from malware, botnets and phishing scams with 100 percent uptime.
DNSsexy

Blogs

Blog submission

Send any DNS blog that you feel adds value to the DNS community. Final decisions rest with me.

  • First & Last names
  • Blog name
  • Blog URL
  • Feed URL

About

DNSsexy is an aggregation of DNS related blogs and news. It is built, edited and maintained by Jan-Piet Mens with substantial contributions by Carsten Strotmann.