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4329d406Débats sur les mesures de la qualité d'accès à l'Internet
Comme le savent les lecteurs les plus fidéles, je participe à un groupe de travail de l'ARCEP qui a pour activité la définition de mesures de la qualité d'accès à l'Internet. Sur quelle base dire que le FAI X est...
4329d499DNSSEC validation in Microsoft DNS Server 2012
The DNS Server in Windows 2012 now supports all bits and pieces necessary to validate DNSSEC signatures and keys in the Internet (including SHA256 and NSEC3). Here is a small tutorial on how to import the trust anchor...
4329d380Shadow
Photo: Phillip Marco Vallentin .
4329d663PostgreSQL and Kerberos
The PostgreSQL database server has a number of methods by which it can authenticate users: trust allows connections unconditionally, password , md5 , and crypt require a client to provide some form of password, ident...
4330d427Digital archery suspended, surely doomed
ICANN has turned off its unpopular “digital archery” system after new gTLD applicants and independent testing reported “unexpected results”. As delegates continue to hit the tarmac here in Prague for ICANN 44, at which...
4330d358Webinar "DNS Firewalls with BIND: ISC RPZ and the Internet..
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4330d287Munin port traffic plugin
I wanted to look at the increase in ntp traffic now that I ve joined the pool.ntp.org ranks. Unfortunately munin didn t have a watch-port-x-and-draw-something-plugin. So I wrote my own based upon the ip_ plugin. The...
4330d317Munin port traffic plugin
I wanted to look at the increase in ntp traffic now that I've joined the pool.ntp.org ranks. Unfortunately munin didn't have a watch-port-x-and-draw-something-plugin. So I wrote my own based upon the ip_ plugin. The...
4330d247Munin port traffic plugin
I wanted to look at the increase in ntp traffic now that I've joined the pool.ntp.org ranks. Unfortunately munin didn't have a watch-port-x-and-draw-something-plugin. So I wrote my own based upon the ip_ plugin. The...
4330d457Egyptian software exec is ICANN’s new CEO
ICANN has named Fadi Chehade as its new CEO. Lebanon-born Chehade is a California-based software industry executive currently CEO of Vocado, a maker of educational software. I m here because I owe the internet everything...
4330d378Munin port traffic plugin
I wanted to look at the increase in ntp traffic now that I've joined the pool.ntp.org ranks. Unfortunately munin didn't have a watch-port-x-and-draw-something-plugin. So I wrote my own based upon the ip_ plugin. The...
4331d409SSH ControlMaster
ControlMaster functionality in SSH has been around for a while, but I learned about it only yesterday: it's impressive. ControlMaster multiplexes all connections to defined hosts through a single TCP connection,...
4331d411ICANN’s new gTLD director quits
Michael Salazar, director of ICANN s new gTLD program, has quit. He ll be replaced on an interim basis by Kurt Pritz, senior director of stakeholder relations, according to a statement from ICANN this evening. No reason...
4331d324Credns 0.2.10 released
Software program aimed at fortifying DNSSEC by performing validation in the DNS notify/transfer-chain.
4331d448Introducing new Web filtering categories from OpenDNS
Today we announce several improvements to the Domain Tagging system, our content categorization engine, as well as two new categories that you can enable for your networks, effective immediately.
4331d570PowerDNS with support for RFC 2136 Dynamic DNS Update
The PowerDNS authoritative name server is renown (and loved) for its support of a variety of database back-ends from which the server answers DNS queries. (If you're new to PowerDNS, you might want to read about it: I...
4331d445Most new gTLDs could be closed shops
ICANN s new generic top-level domain program could create almost 900 closed, single-user namespaces, according to DI PRO s preliminary analysis. Surveying all 1,930 new gTLD applications, we ve found that 912 – about 47%...
4331d300Printing MX records with Go DNS
Now that the API seems to stabilize it is time to update these items. We want to create a little program that prints out the MX records of domains, like so: % mx miek.nl miek.nl. 86400 IN MX 10 elektron.atoom.net. Or %...
4331d433gTLD bid reveals world’s biggest ego — Richard Li
Is this the biggest-headed person in the world? He s Richard Li, chairman of Hong Kong investment group PCCW, and he s applied to ICANN for his very own gTLD, .richardli. According to the application, which was filed by...
4331d316Printing MX records with Go DNS
Now that the API seems to stabilize it is time to update these items. We want to create a little program that prints out the MX records of domains, like so: % mx miek.nl miek . nl . 86400 IN MX 10 elektron . atoom ....
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