Mar 02
Continuing our trend of providing something humorous about IPv6 or DNSSEC on Friday afternoons, here’s a view on why the Close Encounters aliens might have left our planet before really saying hello:
I’m guessing the folks at BlueCat Networks had a wee bit of fun with that one… 
P.S. Seen any funny videos out there related to IPv6 or DNSSEC that we haven’t yet featured? If so, please do let us know! Still looking for that video about IPv6 and kittens… 
Mar 02
The folks over at CZ.NIC Labs just released a brand new DNS server called “Knot,” available for download at:
(Click on “en” at the top left of the page to read it in English.)
As they say on the page:
Knot DNS is a high-performance authoritative-only DNS server which supports all key features of the domain name system including zone transfers, dynamic updates and DNSSEC.
I’ve not yet had a chance to work with it myself, but Jan-Piet Mens wrote about his experience with Knot over on his site. To try it yourself, you can download Knot DNS from the site as a tarball or clone the git repository.
It’s great to see new tools and servers emerging that include DNSSEC support and it will be interesting to watch how Knot DNS evolves.
