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4284d385Sneak Peak: Making of the 2012 SysAdmin Awards Trophies
An inside look at the SysAdmin Awards trophies created by our very own OpenDNS uber-makers.
4284d492Does this sexy .sx ad portend a clash with .sex?
In the occasional DI tradition of linkbaiting Domaining.com with promises of scantily clad eye candy, I humbly invite male readers to get their goggles around this beauty: Phwoar! Eh? Apologies. Anyway, there s a serious...
4284d416Wow! Dramatic Growth in DNSSEC-signed Domains in .NL
Wow!  Per a tweet from Bert Hubert of PowerDNS we learned of this very dramatic graph of growth in DNSSEC-signed domains in .NL (click on the image to see the most up-to-date numbers): That is quite the hockey stick jump...
4285d526Verisign’s .name contract up for renewal
Fresh from winning ICANN approval for its money-spinning .com franchise, Verisign is now going through the same process to renew its .name registry agreement. Notably, the company isn t getting the ability to raise its...
4285d548Shell scripts as Ansible modules
The module development page on Ansible describes how to create your own Ansible modules in Python, and makes a mention of using shell scripts to do so. As I'm "into" Ansible at the moment, I thought I'd give it a try....
4286d210Leap second insertion at work
Puppetd (ruby) was going nuts. Jul 1 01:59:59 elektron kernel: [183728.001601] Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC Results in:
4286d283Leap second insertion at work
Puppetd (ruby) was going nuts. Jul 1 01 : 59 : 59 elektron kernel : [ 183728.001601 ] Clock : inserting leap second 23 : 59 : 60 UTC Results in:
4286d253Leap second insertion at work
Puppetd (ruby) was going nuts. Jul 1 01 : 59 : 59 elektron kernel : [ 183728.001601 ] Clock : inserting leap second 23 : 59 : 60 UTC Results in:
4287d376Leap second insertion at work
Puppetd (ruby) was going nuts. Jul 1 01:59:59 elektron kernel: [183728.001601] Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC Results in:
4287d429.co.no opens for business after court win
The Norwegian registrant of the domain name co.no has won a court case against .no registry Norid that will allow it to finally launch as a pseudo-ccTLD, according to the company. A Trondheim court ruled that Norid...
4287d463Three Google gTLD applications doomed to fail
Google has applied for three new generic top-level domains that will almost certainly be rejected because they are on ICANN s list of banned geographic strings. I reported the story for The Register yesterday. The...
4287d582Breaking: ICANN awarded IANA contract
ICANN has been awarded the contract to run IANA for another three to seven years. It s almost eight months since the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration put the contract up for rebid and four...
4287d397Introducing Enterprise Insights: Painless AD integration...
Today we give you OpenDNS Enterprise Insights, a new service from OpenDNS that integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Active Directory to give you critical visibility into malware and botnet infections on your network, as...
4288d429GAC demands appeal of IDN ccTLD bans
The Governmental Advisory Committee has slammed ICANN s decisions to reject at least three non-Latin ccTLDs because they might pose security risks. Remarkably, the GAC has also asked ICANN to “urgently reconsider” the...
4288d404Digital archery looked “silly” but had “minor risks”,...
While ICANN staff acknowledged that digital archery was perceived as “silly”, it told the board of directors that it was “straightforward” and “unambiguous and easy to execute”. That s according to the latest delayed...
4288d413Faut-il supprimer les secondes intercalaires pour sauver...
La grande panne de nombreux serveurs Linux le 1er juillet a remis sur le tapis la question des secondes intercalaires. S'il y a toujours des bogues aussi sérieuses dans le code qui les gère, ne faudrait-il pas supprimer...
4288d293Libunbound wrapper in Go
I ve created a small wrapper for libunbound for use in Go. The code can be found at github. It depends on my Go DNS library which can be found here. Official announcement on the Unbound-users@ list. To give you a little...
4288d313Libunbound wrapper in Go
I've created a small wrapper for libunbound for use in Go . The code can be found at github . It depends on my Go DNS library which can be found here . Official announcement on the Unbound-users@ list . To give you...
4288d258Libunbound wrapper in Go
I've created a small wrapper for libunbound for use in Go . The code can be found at github . It depends on my Go DNS library which can be found here . Official announcement on the Unbound-users@ list . To give you...
4288d335Libunbound wrapper in Go
I've create a small wrapper for libunbound for use in Go . The code can be found at github . It depends on my Go DNS library which can be found here . Official announcement on the Unbound-users@ list . To give you...
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