This morning we learned via a tweet about this very cool interactive map of the status of DNSSEC support by Swedish municipalities. Sweden has by far been one of the leaders world-wide in implementing DNSSEC and the fact that such a map like this can even be constructed is a great testimony to all the Read more…
Apr 16
Comcast Rolling Out Home Gateway Support for IPv6 – And Nothing’s Controversial About a /64…
Outstanding news for Comcast subscribers last week at the North American IPv6 Summit! Comcast’s John Brzozowski, chief architect for IPv6 and distinguished engineer, indicated that Comcast was now moving its IPv6 support from just supporting single computers to supporting entire home networks. In a Network World article titled “Comcast is first U.S. ISP to offer Read more…
Apr 13
Jitsi Is The First VoIP Softphone To Support DNSSEC
With it’s 1.0 release last week, the Jitsi soft phone became the first VoIP client I know of to support DNSSEC. Jitsi, formerly known as the “SIP Communicator”, is available for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux from: jitsi.org Jitsi has a great range of features including support for voice and video calls, chat/IM, desktop Read more…
Apr 13
Have You Signed Your Domain With DNSSEC Yet? (Here are instructions…)
Have you signed your domain name with DNSSEC yet? If not, how about doing that today? Or as a weekend project? This one little step can go a long way in both helping make your own Internet presence that much more secure and also in helping move the overall DNSSEC effort forward industry-wide. To help Read more…
Apr 13
WordPress Dominates Top 100 Blog/Media Sites
If you had any doubt about the outcome of the "platform wars" of the past few years for "blog"-type sites, one graphic can remove that doubt: This comes from a just-released study from Pingdom and before you say "well, of…
Apr 13
Jima’s IPv6 TLD Hall-of-Shame
Patrick “Jima” Laughton is an advocate for IPv6 who, inspired by a conversation on Facebook, decided to do something to highlight which top-level domains (TLDs) were NOT IPv6-ready. And thus was born the “IPv6 TLD Hall-of-Shame“, available at: http://jima.tk/u/v6tlds He has two lists: TLDs without IPv6 nameservers TLDs with IPv6 nameservers but no IPv6 “glue” Read more…
Apr 12
WebRTC (real-time VoIP in web browsers) On April 13th VUC Call – Join In!
Want to learn about how voice and video calls will take place right in your web browser? WITHOUT a Flash or Java plugin? The "WebRTC" initiative is making this a reality through efforts of the major browser vendors, VoIP industry…
Apr 12
SegTEL/TVC Stringing Fiber Through Keene, NH – A New Internet Choice?
When I look out my office window and see a bucket truck driving by with a guy up in the bucket attaching what looks like fiber optic cable to the polls, my reaction as a networking geek was naturally: who…
Apr 12
White House Summer Jobs Code Sprint Deadline is Monday, April 16, 2012
Interesting to see that the White House is sponsoring its first ever code sprint… from the announcement back on April 2nd:
Today we’re announcing the first ever White House Code Sprint. This is …
Apr 12
Comcast Enables IPv6 For Xfinity and Xfinity TV
Great news out of Comcast this week related to IPv6 – they have now made two of their major content portals available over IPv6! From their comcast6.net page on April 10, 2012: The newest part today moves two of our major portal sites to IPv6, including Xfinity andXfinityTV. This critical move was made possible via close cooperation Read more…
