TDYR #136 – My 3-hour Sunday In London’s Airport by Dan York
Mar 23
Free DNSSEC Training May 22-23, 2014, in Stockholm, Sweden
Are you in Stockholm, Sweden, (or can easily get there) and interested in learning more about DNSSEC? If so, we’ve learned that the great folks at OpenDNSSEC will be offering a free two-day training class on May 22-23, 2014. More info can be found at: http://www.opendnssec.org/support/trainings/ The agenda is online as are the study materials. Read more…
Mar 22
TDYR #135 – Why Curling Is So Awesome For Kids
TDYR #135 – Why Curling Is So Awesome For Kids by Dan York
Mar 22
Facebook’s Extremely Impressive Internal Use of IPv6
Wow! At the v6 World Congress this week in Paris (where Chris and Jan were), Facebook’s Paul Saab gave a very impressive presentation about what Facebook has gone through to convert its internal network over to IPv6. Paul has now posted his presentation online (in the IPv6 Group on Facebook, of course) and the story Read more…
Mar 21
TDYR #134 – Heading To Singapore For ICANN 49 To Talk DNSSEC
I’m heading to Singapore for the ICANN 49 meeting happening there. My focus is on the technical side related to making the Internet more secure via DNSSEC … but a great focus of the meeting will be all about Internet governance issues… More on w…
Mar 21
Turkey’s Ban On Twitter Will Inadvertently Cause A Rise In DNSSEC Validation
Today the media is buzzing with the news of the Turkish government banning Twitter and even more with the fact that citizens are figuring out ways around that. ”The Internet routes around censorship“, as the saying goes (or close to that). There are predictably MANY tweets out there on hashtags like #TurkeyBlockedTwitter and #TwitterBlockedInTurkey. And many Read more…
Mar 21
Google Is Now Always Using TLS/SSL for Gmail Connections
We were pleased today to read that Google is now changing their Gmail service to always use TLS-encrypted connections. As they note in their announcement blog post: Starting today, Gmail will always use an encrypted HTTPS connection when you check or send email. Gmail has supported HTTPS since the day it launched, and in 2010 we made HTTPS the Read more…
Mar 21
Last Day To RSVP For ICANN 49 DNSSEC Implementers Gathering March 26 in Singapore
Will you be at ICANN 49 in Singapore next week? And are you deploying DNSSEC and interested in meeting with others who are also doing so? As we mentioned earlier this week, there are three sessions at ICANN 49 focused on DNSSEC and one of those is an “informal gathering of DNSSEC implementers” on the evening of March Read more…
Mar 20
Microsoft Publishes Guide To Deploying DNSSEC In Windows Server 2012
Do you work in an enterprise using Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and are interested in either deploying DNSSEC validation to provide better security to your users – and/or securing your own DNS zones using DNSSEC? If so, the good folks at Microsoft just recently released a new guide “DNSSEC in Windows Server 2012” that guides Read more…
Mar 20
Flying Around The Globe (Literally)
As someone who enjoys maps, globes and all things related to geography, I found it kind of cool this morning to realize that my travel this weekend to ICANN 49 in Singapore (to be involved with activities related to DNSSEC (DNS Security)) will take me "around the world" in a somewhat literal manner. I will start off flying east from Boston to London and on to Singapore – and then will return flying east to Hong Kong and then to Chicago and back to Boston. Of course, as the "Great Circle Mapper" site reminded me, my "circle" may not be…
