A Very Useful New RFC 7059 – A Comparison of IPv6-over-IPv4 Tunnel Mechanisms

If you can’t get a native IPv6 connection for your network from your local Internet Service Provider (ISP), what kind of “tunneling” mechanism can you use to get IPv6 connectivity for your network?  Today a new Informational (non-standard) RFC 7059, A Comparison of IPv6-over-IPv4 Tunnel Mechanisms, was published that explores exactly these issues. It walks through a wide Read more…

TDYR #050 – Experiencing Podcasting Performance Anxiety

TDYR #050 – Experiencing Podcasting Performance Anxiety by Dan York

Operate an Internet Router? Join our “Router Resilience Survey” To Help Make The Internet More Secure

Do you operate a router connecting your network to the rest of the Internet?  Would you like to help us understanding how resilient and secure the Internet’s routing infrastructure is? If so, please visit our new “Routing Resiliency Survey” at: https://www.internetsociety.org/rrs/ and read more about the new project at: New Internet Society Project Aims to Read more…

3 Ways You Can Help Bring Curling To Keene And The Monadnock Region!

curling rocksHave you watched curling on TV during the Olympics and thought it looked fun? Would you like to try it out? Would you like to see the sport of curling available in the Keene / Monadnock region?

If so, here are three quick …

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Congrats To Keene Ice On The Unanimous Keene City Council Vote!

Keene Ice logoCONGRATULATIONS to the team at Keene Ice for the unanimous vote of the Keene City Council to proceed with executing the development and operations agreements between the City of Keene and the Keene Ice organization!  This is a huge step forward and means that …

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Large-scale Attacks Against VoIP and Videoconferencing Happening Today?

Are there large-scale attacks happening against VoIP and videoconferencing systems today?  Or is it limited to one particular system?  In a posting this morning to the VoiceOps mailing list, J. Oquendo wrote: We have seen a larger than normal, if not, one of the largest attacks against some of our VoIP and video conferencing systems today. Initially, […]

Celebrating 30 Years Of The Domain Name System (DNS) This Month!

Thirty years ago this month, in November 1983, two RFCs were published that defined the critical Internet service that we now take for granted and use every day – the Domain Name System or more generally just “DNS”. Those two RFCs, authored by Paul Mockapetris, were: RFC 882: Domain Names – Concepts and Facilities RFC 883: Domain Read more…

FIR #731 – 11/25/13 – For Immediate Release

Survey update, interviews coming, AllThingsIC with Rachel Miller debuting, book giveaway contest; Quick News: is BP trolling its critics?, the PR Show in London on Nov. 26, Polyvore drives huge social commerce; Ragan promo; News That Fits: change cultu…

Nov 25th Deadline To Nominate Technical Community Reps for IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) (Featured Blog)

Would you (or someone you know) be interested in representing the “technical community” on the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)? If so, the deadline to nominate someone (including yourself) is Monday, Novembe…

TDYR #049 – In Houston, En Route Back To Boston

TDYR #049 – In Houston, En Route Back To Boston by Dan York