Network Computing: IPv6 Adoption On The Rise

We were very pleased to see the article “IPv6 Adoption On The Rise” appear in Network Computing last week where author Tom Hollingsworth wrote about some of the new IPv6 adoption statistics coming out of the folks at RIPE NCC.  As he writes: The more interesting number comes again from RIPE when you cross reference Read more…

FIR #717 – 8/19/13 – For Immediate Release

Coming up: Bloggade, FIR Live on Google link rules, and two FIR interviews; Quick News: AppNet’s first birthday, SNCR’s Coalition for Secure Digital Media, Slack’s launch, YouTube’s freeze of views at 301; Ragan promo; News That Fits: checking the fact…

TDYR #028 – TextIt, A New SMS App Service From Rwanda, Africa

I was fascinated by TextIt, a new SMS application service, not so much by their service, which is cool, but by the fact that they come out of Kigali, Rwanda, in Africa. Read the Hacker News thread to understand the technical aspects behind what they a…

Friday Humor: “Keep Calm and Enable DNSSEC” (and IPv6, too!)

Given that it’s a Friday afternoon and the end of our work week, I felt there was no better way to end the week than to highlight the image tweeted out by Marco Davids of SIDN this morning.  Yes, indeed, we in the DNSSEC community now have our own version of the (overused?) “Keep Calm” Read more…

Video: Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word 2013

If you are fan of WordPress… if you use WordPress or maintain a WordPress site… and haven’t yet watched Matt Mullenweg’s "State of the Word 2013" talk from WordCamp San Francisco in July, I’d strongly encourage you to sit down…

Digging Into The August 14 .GOV Outage Related To DNSSEC

Over the past day there have been a number of news reports talking about the brief outage that occurred yesterday, August 14, 2013, when sites ending in .GOV were unreachable if you were performing DNSSEC validation on those domain names.  Many of those news reports are pointing at Johannes Ullrich’s post on the SANS ISC Read more…

Amused By Spotify’s Clever Suggestions of Popular Music "When You Were In School"

Working in a home office, I’ve found that I enjoy having Spotify on in the background playing a much larger range of music than what I have in my own collection. I have found the "Discover" tab to be quite…

TDYR #027 – 10 Years Ago Today, The Massive Power Blackout In US And Canada

10 years ago today, on August 14, 2003, there was a massive power outage that affected Ontario, Canada, and much of the northeastern United States. In this episode I reflect on where I was that day and some of my thoughts around that event, as well as…

Video: IETF Chair Jari Arkko Summarizes The Activities of IETF 87 In Berlin (Featured Blog)

The 87th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Berlin, Germany, concluded on August 2, 2013. IETF Chair Jari Arkko recently published his summary of IETF 87 on the IETF Blog highlighting what he felt were some of the more important a…

FIR #716 – 8/12/13 – For Immediate Release

AirPR interview is up, marketing automation and Melbourne Mandate interviews coming, Bloggade 2013 is coming up; Quick news: promoted tweets boost offline sales, MixBit adds collaboration to Vine-Instagram competitor, top three tips from a LinkedIn exp…