Jan 17
We have a chance to watch some *amazing* curling this weekend streaming live across the Internet as some of the best teams in the world compete in the “Continental Cup 2014” in Las Vegas. The live stream can be found at:
http://www.youtube.com/worldc…
Jan 17
Do we need an “open interface and a programmable platform to support various IPv6 applications? That is the question posed for a new “openv6″ IETF discussion mailing list announced yesterday. The openv6 list, which is open to anyone to subscribe to, has this description: This list is to discuss a open interface and a programmable platform Read more…
Jan 16
I learned a very cool trick to type special characters while on a Mac… where before to type a “ü” I would press “Alt+u” to get an umlaut and then the “u” key, now I just use what I describe in this episode… VERY cool! (And presumably only for Macs – I don’t know if there is a similar trick for Windows.)
Jan 16
How can the open standards organizations of the IETF and W3C “strengthen the Internet” against large-scale pervasive monitoring? That is the topic up for discussion at the “Strengthening the Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring (STRINT)” workshop plan…
Jan 16
The latest World IPv6 Launch measurements are up, and as noted in a blog post by Mat Ford, Deutsche Telekom has shown impressive growth over the past few months with this month’s metrics showing that 15.50% Also rather significantly you can see in the list that now over 40% of the traffic coming from Verizon Read more…
Jan 16
We were very pleased to see this recent post over at the CircleID site, “Domain Name System (DNS) Security Should Be One of Your Priorities“, by Rick Rumbarger. He makes a number of great points, particularly about the fact that so many people take DNS for granted and don’t give it the attention they should. Read more…
Jan 15
Have you planned your own funeral/memorial service yet? Does anyone know how you would like your death handled? Do you want to be buried? cremated? In this episode I reflect on how a recent experience made me realize how important thinking about thes…
Jan 15
If an application gets back both an IPv4 and IPv6 address from DNS, which one should the application use to connect? This dilemma for a “dual-stack” host is one that Dan Wing and Andrew Yourtchenko addressed in RFC 6555, “Happy Eyeballs: Success with Dual-Stack Hosts“ that can be found at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6555 At a high level, the premise Read more…
Jan 14
What are the myths about IPv6 security? What is the reality? How secure is IPv6 really? What new security advantages does it offer? What should IT system administrators be thinking about with regard to security as they move into an IPv6 world? In a talk to the South Asian Network Operators Group (SANOG) today, our Chris Read more…
Jan 14
The Jetpack plugin for WordPress now lets you publicize posts to your blog out to Google+ in addition to Twitter, Facebook and other services. In this episode I talk about the power of that and all the other features of the Jetpack plugin. More info:…
