Would you like to have SSH just automagically use DNSSEC to verify the authenticity of the SSH keys you are using to connect to another system? Over on his blog, Jan-Piet Mens lays out the steps to add exactly this, demonstrating how to add ldns support into OpenSSH. Essentially all you need to do is Read more…
Jul 27
NIST Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6
The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created an excellent “Special Publication” related to IPv6 security called: Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6 Like most of NIST’s special publications, including their excellent guide to DNSSEC, the document begins with a lengthy tutorial about IPv6 and how it compares to IPv4. The Read more…
Jul 27
Warning! DNSSEC-Trigger Installation Issue After Mountain Lion Upgrade
If you are a Mac OS X user looking to upgrade to the brand new Mountain Lion release – and you also have installed DNSSEC-Trigger to have a local DNSSEC-validating DNS resolver, it seems there may be an issue during the upgrade process that you need to deal with. [UPDATE: This issue apparently only affects new installations Read more…
Jul 26
Google Now Lets You Handwrite Search Queries On iPad, iPhone, Android
Okay, I admittedly find this pretty cool… you can now enter search queries into Google on a tablet or mobile phone just by writing anywhere on the screen! As Google’s blog post outlines, you need to go to www.google.com on…
Jul 26
Video: An Excellent Tour Of Voxeo’s Awesome New Office!
My friends and former colleagues at Voxeo have produced a truly outstanding video giving a tour of the incredible space they have created in Orlando, Florida: Kudos to the Voxeo marketing team for creating this video! And congrats to Jonathan…
Jul 25
Hiring! Looking For An IETFer To Join ISOC’s Deploy360 Programme
Do you want to help get open standards like IPv6 and DNSSEC more widely deployed? Would you like to see other technologies developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) more rapidly adopted by network operators? Are you passionate about…
Jul 25
Images/Photos Alone Do Not Make A Content Strategy
Credit: C.C. ChapmanLately, it seems, the social media world is all abuzz about "images" in various forms. Photos, pictures… Instagram… Pinterest… infographics… plus Twitter, Facebook and Google+ all enhancing their capability to handle photos… and now this intense fascination with…
Jul 20
Have You Checked Out This Online IPv6 Training?
Are you looking to learn what IPv6 is all about? Would you like to understand the basics of how IPv6 addresses work? If so, the 6Deploy project has put some great video tutorials online at: http://www.6deploy.eu/e-learning/english/ As we mention on our resource page about the training, the seven sections of the course cover the basics Read more…
Jul 20
Have You Checked Out This Online IPv6 Training?
Are you looking to learn what IPv6 is all about? Would you like to understand the basics of how IPv6 addresses work? If so, the 6Deploy project has put some great video tutorials online at: http://www.6deploy.eu/e-learning/english/ As we mention on our resource page about the training, the seven sections of the course cover the basics […]
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Jul 19
Netflix Provides Excellent Technical Details Behind IPv6 Streaming Rollout
Yesterday over on the Netflix Tech Blog, Rajiv Aggarwal and David Temkin provided an excellent view into how they enabled IPv6 support for Netflix’s video streaming. A couple of points in the article are worth calling out. First, they encountered an issue with the immaturity of some IPv6 code: We found a reference leak in Read more…
