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4613d455Project page for "Learning Go"
I added a shiny project page for the "Learning Go" book I'm writing. Errata, new releases and other stuff will get a place there. For good measure I even added a "Donate" button - we'll see how to that plays out.
4614d426OpenDNSSEC 1.2.2 released
Bugfix release. For downloads and more information about future release plans, visit the OpenDNSSEC website.
4614d543ISPs hijacking search keywords using DNS?
ISPs are up to no good and we can help undo their damage.
4614d476ISC DHCP Server Halt
Summary: Two issues have been found in DHCP that could allow an attacker to cause the server to halt. CVE: 2011-2748 Document Version: 1.1 Posting date: 10 Aug 2011 Program Impacted: DHCP Versions affected: 3.1.0 through...
4615d558The root is up, period!
4615d473DHCP 4.1-ESV-R3
Project: DHCP DHCP 4.1-ESV-R3.html DHCP 4.1-ESV-R3 is the current Extended Support Version. Download Signatures dhcp-4.1-ESV-R3.tar.gz asc sha1 sha256 sha512 Source Download
4615d467DHCP 4.2.2
Project: DHCP DHCP 4.2.2.html DHCP 4.2.2 is a current production release of DHCP 4.2 Download Signatures dhcp-4.2.2.tar.gz asc sha1 sha256 sha512 Source Download
4615d494Apple not playing a fair game
Jan Wildeboer is covering and following up on a story on how Apple Corp has been granted an injunction stopping Samsung from offering the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Europe: Apple, it is time to grow up and face competition the...
4615d993Extending the Unbound DNS server with Python
Your corporate telephone directory queryable via the DNS? Sure, I've shown you how to do it in Perl using Stanford::DNSserver , but I was recently asked wether a separate authoritative server really was required. An...
4615d522Boys need toys: Android watch
4615d570New version of nsdiff
A few people have shown interest in nsdiff which is more than I expected for a quick hack. In fact, Terry Burton at the University of Leicester is planning to put it into production! He also reported a bug (it got TTL...
4615d721DS-Lite architecture: overview and automatic configuration
Tomasz Mrugalski Dual Stack Lite is an architecture that allows IPv4 services to be provided in an IPv6 network, despite a limited amount of available IPv4 addresses. Work on DS-Lite was conducted within the Softwires...
4616d538Funky IP-address lookup
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4619d543Does your app support the .yyyyy TLD?
You may have heard, read about, or even seen (gasp!) that the first .XXX Web site in the .XXX Top-Level Domain (TLD) has gone live. I personally believe the TLD is quite useless, but that's beside the point. Be that as...
4620d643Black Ops of TCP/IP 2011
This year s Black Hat and Defcon slides! Man, it s nice to be playing with packets again! People seem to be rather excited (Forbes, Dark Reading, Search Security) about the Neutrality Router I ve been working on. It s...
4620d539Don't do that!
It's been a bit since I saw the last, but they're cropping up on a regular basis: installation instructions that request you pipe the output of a curl command into your shell. I really hope that users and...
4621d529DNS Blacklisting?
Management has asked to create a method to push out a hosts file similar to http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt to all our clients. It seems that we might be able to create a more mangeable solution if we could create...
4621d760OpenDNS Datacenter Monitoring Station
OpenDNS turned 5 this year and I wanted to build something really cool to commemorate the occasion.  I wanted to make something that would look amazing, was functional and would make people think about just how much we...
4621d544Dynamic DNS updates from MySQL with a UDF and inotify()
We have an "untouchable" application here, a huge Java whatsit which, among a gazillion other things, stores hostnames, IP, and hardware addresses in a MySQL database. My task is "simple": plug a BIND nameserver onto...
4621d482Look up
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