On the Internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) performs the critical role of translating human-readable domain names into the underlying IP addresses needed by computers to connect. The challenge is that attackers can subvert and modify DNS messages wit…
Oct 31
7 Of The Many Sessions About IPv6 Next Week At IETF 88
The great news for IPv6 advocates about IETF 88 in Vancouver next week is that IPv6 is everywhere! All throughout the IETF 88 agenda you can find IPv6 in various different groups. IPv6 is definitely “the new normal” and that shows! Our colleague Phil Roberts posted today “Rough Guide to IETF 88: All About IPv6” where he highlights the Read more…
Oct 31
Bruce Schneier to Speak About Internet Surveillance at IETF 88 Technical Plenary Next Week (Featured Blog)
How do we harden the Internet against the kinds of pervasive monitoring and surveillance that has been in recent news? While full solutions may require political and legal actions, are there technical improvements that can be made to underlying Interne…
Oct 31
TDYR #045 – Hardening The Internet Against Surveillance – IETF 88 Technical Plenary Next Week
What can be done to harden the Internet against large-scale surveillance and pervasive monitoring? That will be the topic of the Technical Plenary next Wednesday, Nov 6, at the IETF 88 meeting in Vancouver. In this episode I talk about the upcoming e…
Oct 31
Video Interview: Why Use Knot DNS For DNS And DNSSEC?
What is the “Knot DNS” server all about and why would you want to use it versus one of the other DNS servers supporting DNSSEC? At the recent ENOG 6 event in Kiev, Ukraine, I had a chance to speak with Jaromir Talir from CZ.NIC Labs and the resulting video interview can be found below. Read more…
Oct 31
Knot DNS
Knot DNS is an authoritative DNS name server that can be used to serve out zone records and includes support for DNSSEC and DANE. One of the key design goals is to provide simple DNSSEC support for dynamic DNS. Knot DNS is developed by the team at CZ.NIC and can be found at: https://www.knot-dns.cz/ It Read more…
Oct 30
4 Sessions About Routing Resiliency/Security At IETF 88 Next Week
Next week at IETF 88 in Vancouver the topic of routing resiliency/security will be covered in a variety of different working groups. Our colleague Andrei Robachevsky outlined what will be covered in a post on the “Internet Technology Matters (ITM)” blog: Rough Guide to IETF 88: Routing Resilience. We’re looking forward to those sessions and you can Read more…
Oct 30
Finally! Google+ Starts Rolling Out Custom URLs To Regular Users
Finally! We can now get "custom URLs" for our Google+ accounts! As of this morning you can now find me at the nice and easy URL of: https://plus.google.com/+DanYork/ One of the supreme annoyances of using Google+ has been the horribly…
Oct 30
Linphone On iOS Now Supports The Opus Codec
When updating my iPhone this week, I was extremely pleased to see the message in the attached screenshot that Linphone now supports the Opus audio codec. Somewhat strangely, I don’t see any mention of this Opus support (or even the…
