What’s happening with IPv6 at the 85th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) coming up in Atlanta November 4-9, 2012? Which working groups will be meeting? As noted in our recently published “Internet Society’s Rough Guide to IETF 85′s Hot Topics” there are 4 working groups meeting at IETF 85 specifically on IPv6 Read more…
Oct 24
Walking In Red Square – Reflections Of A Child Of The 1970s
I was born in the late 1960’s and grew up in the U.S. in the 70’s and 80’s when the Russians were the enemy. When the Soviet Union was the evil empire bent on the destruction of freedom, democracy and everything we held dear. When calling someone a "Russki" was an insult and when the news media routinely showed images of the Soviet military parades in Red Square. When we were sure that the Kremlin was sending spies into our country to steal all our secrets and would do whatever it could to destroy our lifestyle. And when the doctrine…
Oct 23
Excellent whitepaper/tutorial from SURFnet on deploying DNSSEC-validating DNS servers
How do you get started with deploying DNSSEC-validating DNS servers on your network? What kind of planning should you undertake? What are the steps you need to go through? The team over at SURFnet in the Netherlands recently released an excellent whitepaper that goes into the importance of setting up DNSSEC validation, the requirements for Read more…
Oct 23
Deploying DNSSEC: Validation on recursive caching name servers
Why should you deploy DNSSEC-validating DNS resolvers on your network? What kind of planning should you do to prepare? What steps do you need to do? The team at SURFnet has published a whitepaper titled “Deploying DNSSEC: Validation on recursive caching name servers” (PDF) that answers these specific questions and much more. The document covers: Read more…
Oct 23
DNSSEC Training: Men and Mice
Men & Mice has worked with the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), authors and maintains of the BIND DNS server, to provide training related to DNSSEC for several years at both conferences and in training centers all over the world. Their latest schedule of courses can be found at: http://www.menandmice.com/training/ Men & Mice offers focused classes Read more…
Oct 22
FIR #674 – 10/22/12 – For Immediate Release
New comment line; What The Plus book review is up; Mayo Clinic social media book is available; our GaggleAmp anniversary; Quick News: a new UK businiess podcast, changes to LinkedIn profiles, Gartner sees rise in fake reviews, Bodyform’s sense of humor…
Oct 19
“Migrating Apps To IPv6” Author And Editor Get To Meet Face-To-Face
A curious aspect of writing a book is that you never actually need to meet the people with whom you are working at a publisher. Everything can be done online with maybe an occasional phone call thrown in. Editors, production staff, publicists… all the interaction happens primarily through email.
It’s nice, though, when you do …
Oct 19
In Moscow for ENOG 4 Oct 23 & 24? We’ll Be There Talking About DNSSEC
Will you be in Moscow this coming week (Oct 23-24, 2012) at the Eurasia Network Operators’ Group (ENOG) 4 meeting? If so, I (Dan York) will be there to speak about DNSSEC and how it applies to network operators. My talk, titled “DNSSEC – Why Network Operators Should Care And How To Accelerate Deployment “, Read more…
Oct 19
Walking Through Setting Up A TLSA Record for DNSSEC/DANE
In a post titled “DNSSEC and Certificates” today, Shumon Huque provides a nice walk-through of the steps needed to get set up with a TLSA record in DNS to tie a SSL/TLS certificate into the global chain-of-trust created by DNSSEC. First, though, he explains very succinctly why we should care about security issues related to Read more…
Oct 19
Youth Curling League Starts This Saturday at Petersham CC
Yea! This Saturday is the first day of the youth curling league at the Petersham Curling Club down in Petersham, Massachusetts (about 45 minutes south of where I live in Keene, NH). It will also be the start of my second year coaching as I’m helping out with the "Little Rockers" who are between the ages of 7 and 11. (Including my now 10-year-old daughter, pictured in the photo accompanying this article.) I helped out last year and didn’t realize how much fun it would be to do! On a certain level it shouldn’t have been a surprise given my…
