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…

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…

“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 …

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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…

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…

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…

Code Examples: Checking the DNSSEC Status Of A Large Number of Domains

Do you want to check the DNSSEC status of a large number of domains?  To know whether they are signed or unsigned? Or perhaps if any of the domains are failing validation? Yesterday at the DNSSEC Deployment Workshop at ICANN 45 in Toronto I learned that the good folks at SIDN Labs in the Netherlands Read more…

ICANN45 DNSSEC Deployment Workshop Streaming Live NOW From Toronto

Want to hear case studies about DNSSEC deployment all around North America? To hear about new DNSSEC tools?  To learn about what has and has not worked for encouraging DNSSEC deployment? If so, you can listen live right now to the DNSSEC Deployment Workshop happening at the ICANN 45 meeting in Toronto.  More info at: Read more…

FIR #673 – 10/15/12 – For Immediate Release

Neville records solo today; FIR nominated for European Podcast Award; discount for FIR listeners to Social Media Marketing 2012 conference; Quick News: Ford and PeerIndex influencer outreach programme in Europe; Evernote Smart Notebook from Moleskin; …

Hypervoice – The Fundamental Flaw In The Proposal

I am a huge fan of Martin Geddes, but he and I disagree fundamentally on one key part of what he is now calling "hypervoice". NOTE: Today’s VUC call at 12noon US Eastern will be with Martin discussing his ideas….