Are you are member of the research or education community interested in connecting with others who are implementing DNSSEC? Or are you interested in monitoring what is happening within the research/education world with regard to DNSSEC? If so, the Internet2 Consortium has a Special Interest Group (SIG) focused on DNSSEC. The SIG has a website Read more…
Feb 21
O’Reilly Offers Free Ebook: "Publishing with iBooks Author"
In an interesting move, O’Reilly Media has made their brand new ebook, "Publishing with iBooks Author", available for free download (assuming you have a free account set up with O’Reilly). As is standard with O’Reilly now, the ebook is DRM-free…
Feb 21
RIPE Labs Reports on IPv4 Address Depletion Per Region
Which regions of the world are depleting their IPv4 addresses the quickest? Our friends over at RIPE Labs published some interesting statistics earlier this month about the growth in IPv4 address allocation per region. The article’s goal is: With the depletion of the IPv4 free pool in the APNIC region and the imminent IPv4 free Read more…
Feb 20
Inspiring Video: LeVar Burton’s TOC Keynote On The Power Of Stories and Storytelling
One of the highlights of attending O’Reilly’s TOCCON last week in New York turned out to be a short but incredibly inspiring keynote presentation by LeVar Burton, who some of us may forever know as "Geordi LaForge" from "Star Trek:…
Feb 20
Fedora Project Requesting Testers of DNSSEC-Trigger
Want to help out a Linux project with DNSSEC? In a recent message to the Fedora Project developers list, Paul Wouters from Red Hat asked for people to help test the recent addition of DNSSEC-Trigger to the “rawhide” distribution of Fedora. As he says in the email: In our efforts to push DNSSEC to the Read more…
Feb 20
Network World Reports on IPv6 Week and World IPv6 Launch – Encourages Participation
Over on Network World in their “Core Networking and Security” area, Scott Hogg recently published a great piece about IPv6 Week and World IPv6 week. He starts out talking about last year’s World IPv6 Day and then describes the IPv6 Week effort focused in Latin America. His conclusion? (my emphasis added) This event ends today Read more…
Feb 17
Deploy360 Stickers and Pens!
Working remotely, I was delighted to receive a package recently from my colleague Megan down in our Reston, VA, office that was full of Deploy360 stickers and pens! One Deploy360 sticker now is nicely on the back of my iPad and another adorns the cover of my laptop. (Yes, I’m that kind of person who Read more…
Feb 17
Need A Weekend Project? Install The New DNSSEC-Trigger 0.10 Release
Looking for a quick weekend project to learn more about DNSSEC? Want to set up your home network to correctly validate DNSSEC info? If so, the NLnet Labs team just announced the 0.10 release of DNSSEC-Trigger, a local DNSSEC-validating resolver you can run on your Linux, Windows or Mac OS X system. Per the change Read more…
Feb 17
Chris Grundemann’s Excellent “Introducing IPv6″ Article Series
Over on his “don’t panic” blog, Chris Grundemann has started an excellent series of articles on the topic of “Introducing IPv6″. You can see the articles he’s written so far: http://chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/category/ipv6/introducing-ipv6/ In his first post in the 4-part series, Understanding IPv6 Addresses, Chris goes down to a bit level to explain exactly why we wound Read more…
Feb 16
Want to Deploy DNSSEC on Microsoft Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2?
Do you operate a Microsoft Windows server infrastructure and would like to know how to implement DNSSEC? If so, Microsoft published a “DNSSEC Deployment Guide” to help administrators of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 systems. The comprehensive document explains what DNSSEC is all about, walks step-by-step through each process and also provides easy Read more…
