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4983d717Black 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...
4984d581Don'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...
4984d578DNS 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...
4984d815OpenDNS 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...
4985d587Dynamic 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...
4985d539Look up
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4985d717Speeding up large amounts of dynamic DNS updates (DDNS)
Marcel is one of the gentlemen who maintain the NixSPAM DNSBL , and he contacted me a few weeks ago. The project maintains very volatile DNS data on a BIND name server, and they are beginning to experience difficulties...
4986d744IPv6 and DHCPv6 Is Stateless Address Autoconfiguration...
For IPv4 networks, DHCP is by far the preferred method for automated network configuration.  It s uncommon to find a user network that doesn t use it. For IPv6 networks, things aren t so clear-cut.  The designers of the...
4986d578Contest: Vote on a domain and find a Golden Ticket
The OpenDNS Domain Tagging system represents the best of people-powered security: Community members from around the world work together to efficiently and accurately categorize the Internet s content so OpenDNS users can...
4986d534BIND 9.6-ESV-R5
Project: BIND Release Notes BIND 9.6.ESV-R5 is the current Extended Support Version of BIND 9.6 Download Signatures bind-9.6-ESV-R5.tar.gz asc sha1 sha256 sha512 BIND9.6-ESV-R5.zip asc sha1 sha256 sha512 Source...
4986d387Chaining proxies
Online signing is cool, but slow. Caching queries in a reverse proxy is nice, but useless for something like NSD. But what if you want to do online signing in a fast way? Enter: proxy chaining. I already showed...
4986d604BIND 9.7.4
Project: BIND Release Notes BIND 9.7.4 is a current production release. Download Signatures bind-9.7.4.tar.gz asc sha1 sha256 sha512 BIND9.7.4.zip asc sha1 sha256 sha512 source Download Windows Download
4986d419Chaining proxies
Online signing is cool, but slow. Caching queries in a reverse proxy is nice, but useless for something like NSD. But what if you want to do online signing in a fast way? Enter: proxy chaining. I already showed...
4986d404Chaining proxies
Online signing is cool, but slow. Caching queries in a reverse proxy is nice, but useless for something like NSD. But what if you want to do online signing in a fast way? Enter: proxy chaining. I already showed...
4986d502Chaining proxies
Online signing is cool, but slow. Caching queries in a reverse proxy is nice, but useless for something like NSD. But what if you want to do online signing in a fast way? Enter: proxy chaining. I already showed...
4987d579Arduino-powered datacenter monitoring panel
The guys over at OpenDNS got a very cool datacenter monitoring panel for their 5th birthday. More
4988d348Reverse DNS proxy
Have a slow nameserver and want to spice things up? How about a reverse DNS proxy? For lack of a cool name I chose the name FunkenShield. It s (of course) in the early stages, but it works quite nicely already. This is...
4988d448Reverse DNS proxy
Have a slow nameserver and want to spice things up? How about a reverse DNS proxy? For lack of a cool name I chose the name FunkenShield . It's (of course) in the early stages, but it works quite nicely already. This...
4988d368Reverse DNS proxy
Have a slow nameserver and want to spice things up? How about a reverse DNS proxy? For lack of a cool name I chose the name FunkenShield . It's (of course) in the early stages, but it works quite nicely already. This...
4988d558Reverse DNS proxy
Have a slow nameserver and want to spice things up? How about a reverse DNS proxy? For lack of a cool name I chose the name FunkenShield . It's (of course) in the early stages, but it works quite nicely already. This...
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