TDYR #144 – A Great (Final) Night Of Curling – And Winning The League Championship

TDYR #144 – A Great (Final) Night Of Curling – And Winning The League Championship by Dan York

New RFC 7157 Out About IPv6 Multihoming Without NAT

What are the challenges with connecting a small network or device to multiple ”upstream” IPv6 networks? How can you set up such a network while avoiding the Network Address Translation (NAT) required in IPv4?  To address these questions and provide useful guidance, a group of engineers wrote a document that was just published as RFC 7157, “IPv6 Read more…

TDYR #143 – Of Flooding And Basement Drainage Systems

TDYR #143 – Of Flooding And Basement Drainage Systems by Dan York

Congrats to Aruba for Signing .AW with DNSSEC

It was great to see that Aruba is the latest country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) to join the 298 TLDs that have signed their TLD with DNSSEC. With the .AW TLD signed, the first barrier is removed for companies and organizations seeking to sign their .AW domains and achieve the higher level of security possible with Read more…

Want To Attend IETF 90 In Toronto? Apply For An IETF Fellowship

Are you interested in attending the next meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Toronto in July 2014? Have you never been to an IETF meeting but would like to participate in the face-to-face aspect of the open standards process of the IETF? If so, our colleagues who operate the “Internet Society Fellowship to Read more…

TDYR #142 – Slow Down, You Move Too Fast

TDYR #142 – Slow Down, You Move Too Fast by Dan York

TDYR #141 – Impressed So Far With Duolingo For Learning French

TDYR #141 – Impressed So Far With Duolingo For Learning French by Dan York

Next DNS-OARC Meeting May 10-11, 2014, Before RIPE68 in Warsaw

If you are interested in all matters related to DNS, including DNSSEC, the next meeting of the DNS Operations Analysis and Research Center (DNS-OARC) will take place May 10-11, 2014, in Warsaw, Poland.  Sponsored this time by Microsoft, the “OARC 2014 Spring Workshop” is immediately before the RIPE 68 meeting taking place in the same Read more…

TDYR #140 – Travelogue: The Long Journey Home From Singapore

TDYR #140 – Travelogue: The Long Journey Home From Singapore by Dan York

New IETF Mailing List To Discuss Privacy and Confidentiality of DNS

How can we better protect the privacy and confidentiality of DNS queries? While DNSSEC protects the integrity of answers coming back from DNS (i.e. ensuring they aren’t modified in transit), what can be done to protect the confidentiality and privacy of information retrieved from DNS?  Particularly against the kind of pervasive monitoring and large-scale network sniffing we’ve Read more…