Comcast’s Speedtest Now Breaks Out IPv6 Speed Vs IPv4 Speed

A tip from John Jason Brzowski let us know that Comcast’s Internet speed test at speedtest.comcast.net now performs speed tests over both IPv6 and IPv4 and shows you the results separately.  This is a public test that anyone can use, regardless of whether you are a Comcast customer or not.  Perhaps obviously, for the IPv6 test to Read more…

TDYR #090 – The Calm Before The (Winter) Storm

TDYR #090 – The Calm Before The (Winter) Storm by Dan York

NLnet Labs Releases Helpful DNSSEC Infrastructure Audit Framework

How secure is your DNSSEC infrastructure? If you operate a registry for a top-level domain (TLD) or if you are a DNS operator providing DNSSEC signing services, how secure are your operations?  And how secure are your mechanisms for communicating DNSSEC information with registrars and other entities?  Or, if you are a security auditor or Read more…

TDYR #089 – The Venomous Reactions To Coke’s SuperBowl Ad Show We Still Have Much Work To Do

TDYR #089 – The Venomous Reactions To Coke’s SuperBowl Ad Show We Still Have Much Work To Do by Dan York

CircleID: Thinking Strategically About the Benefits of IPv6

I love it when my Monday morning begins by seeing posts like this one:  Thinking Strategically About The Benefits of IPv6 by Mukom Akong Tamon.   Please go over there and read that piece.  He’s absolutely right that we need to be thinking about IPv6 beyond simply the fact that IPv4 addresses are on their way to Read more…

FIR #741 – 2/3/14 – For Immediate Release

Quick News: B2B marketing metrics, corporate newsrooms fail to deliver, Twitter’s new new-mining tool, blackmailer social-engineers his way to theft; Ragan promo; News That Fits: real-time gives way to right-time marketing, Dan York’s Tech Report, the …

TDYR #088 – Kudos To The NFL And Fox Sports For Streaming The Super Bowl Live To Cord-cutters

TDYR #088 – Kudos To The NFL And Fox Sports For Streaming The Super Bowl Live To Cord-cutters by Dan York

Slides: Case Study Of An IPv6 Addressing Plan (RIPE67)

How do you best plan how to allocate IPv6 addresses across your network?  In addition to the resources we already link to on our IPv6 Address Planning page, this case study presented back at RIPE 67 in October also provided a nice graphical illustration of one way in which you could allocate IPv6 addresses: The Read more…

TDYR #087 – How Far Are We Willing To Go To Help Those In Need?

TDYR #087 – How Far Are We Willing To Go To Help Those In Need? by Dan York

Weekend Project: Install The DNSSEC/TLSA Validator for Chrome, Firefox, more

How do you know if a website has a domain signed by DNSSEC?  Here’s another quick weekend project, very similar to last weekend’s project , where you can add support to your web browsers to know the DNSSEC status of sites you are visiting.  Even better, as people start to use the DANE protocol to secure Read more…