3 IETF Mailing Lists To Follow For Monitoring DNSSEC

Would you like to monitor the ongoing evolution of IETF standards related to DNSSEC?  If so, here are 3 IETF working group mailing lists you may consider joining.  All lists are open to anyone to join.  Do note that several of these can have a very large amount of traffic.  Each of the mailing list Read more…

Slides: The Case For IPv6-Only Data Centers

Why don’t we just skip dual-stack and other transition technologies and jump straight to IPv6-only data centers that use a gateway/proxy server to service IPv4 requests? That’s the fundamental question Tore Anderson posed in his presentation to the V6 World Congress last week in Paris: “The Case For IPv6-Only Data Centers” (PDF). Here’s what was Read more…

Google’s Public DNS Works With IPv6 – Can Help In Your Migration

In a post out yesterday, “Google Public DNS: 70 billion requests a day and counting“, Google reminded us all that their Public DNS service supports IPv6 at these addresses: 2001:4860:4860::8888 2001:4860:4860::8844 From Google’s post: We’ve also taken steps to help support IPv6. On World IPv6 Day, we announced our IPv6 addresses: 2001:4860:4860::8888 and 2001:4860:4860::8844 to Read more…

Valuable Info In EU’s “Good Practices Guide” for DNSSEC Deployment

Looking for a good concise guide to the security issues and procedures related to deploying DNSSEC?  Back in March 2010, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) issued their “Good Practices Guide For Deploying DNSSEC” with the abstract: Deploying DNSSEC requires a number of security details and procedures to be defined and followed with Read more…

Network Computing: Time To Buckle Down and Start an IPv6 Project

Over on the Network Computer site, author Robert Mullins recently said it’s time to buckle down and start an IPv6 project. The first of an apparent three-part series, this article primarily provides an overview of the issues around the transition to IPv6, mentions the upcoming World IPv6 Launch, addresses the “chicken and egg” situation around Read more…

4 IETF Mailing Lists To Follow For Monitoring IPv6

Want to monitor the ongoing evolution of IETF standards related to IPv6?  Here are 4 mailing lists and the associated IETF working groups you may consider joining.  All lists are open to anyone to join.  Note that several of these can have a very large amount of traffic.  Each of the mailing list pages also Read more…

World IPv6 Launch Coming On June 6, 2012 – Will Your Apps Work with IPv6?

WorldIPv6Launch 250On June 6, 2012, World IPv6 Launch will mark the time when IPv6 is permanently enabled by many operators, website operators, content providers and organizations around the world.

Will your application(s) work on IPv6? What will you need to do …

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ICANN DNSSEC Workshop March 14 in Costa Rica

Will you be at the ICANN 43 meeting taking place in San José, Costa Rica, in March 2012?  If so, on Wednesday, March 14, 2012, there will be a “DNSSEC Workshop” bringing together people to discuss current and future DNSSEC deployment.  Information is not yet available on the ICANN 43 website, but the call for proposals Read more…

NLnet Labs Makes Their DNSSEC Training Materials Freely Available For All To Use

Want to offer your own DNSSEC training courses? Or want to run an internal DNSSEC training class? Or want to give a DNSSEC presentation to a local user group? Or are you simply looking for material to help you learn more about DNSSEC? If you answered yes to any of those questions, Olaf Kolkman and Read more…

Slides: The Status of IPv6 and Open Source/Free Operating systems

What is the status of IPv6 support in free / open source operating systems? Recently Olle Johansson gave a presentation in Sweden where he provided, in his own words: A status report from a brief test of IPv6 support (including DHCPv6 and SLAAC) in OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora compared with Windows 7 and OS/X Read more…