Dns, Web

Speaker: Richard Crowley: Velocity 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, June 22 - ...

Richard started his career as part of the Yahoo! Intern Class of 2006 and was subsequently offered a position at Flickr. After building the Flickr Uploadr, today used by millions of Flickr users around the world, Richard left Flickr to join OpenDNS, the world's largest and fastest-growing DNS provider. At OpenDNS Richard leads engineering on backend systems, namely the DNS Stats processing system which handles more than 8 billion DNS queries daily. Richard is a 2007 graduate of Washington University in Saint Louis, where he earned Bachelor's Degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science.

[Publish Date: June 22, 2009]

Building OpenDNS Stats: Velocity 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, June 22 - 24, ...

By Richard Crowley

OpenDNS performs more than 8 billion DNS queries each day, generating mountains of data which we give back to our users. Processing and storing the interesting bits took a special map-reduce pipeline running on seven servers, backed by MySQL and memcached. I'll share all of the false starts and the techniques used to finally cope with more than half a gigabyte of log files per minute.

[Publish Date: June 22, 2009]

Speaker: Eric Day: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

Eric Day works full-time on Drizzle (link: https://www.drizzle.org/) and Gearman (link: https://www.gearman.org/) at Sun Microsystems (link: https://www.sun.com/.) He has been writing high-performance, multi-threaded servers and databases for most of his career, always with an emphasis on efficiency and security. A majority of that time was at Concentric (link: https://www.concentric.com/) where he wrote complete HTTP/SSL, DNS, and IMAP implementations, along with designing and implementing custom storage and database systems. Most of his work has been done in clustered and distributed environments. When not hacking on code, he can be found running, biking, or enjoying a good vegan meal.

[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]

Kaminsky DNS Patch Visualization - O'Reilly Radar

By Jesse Robbins

Dan Kaminsky has posted the details of the widespread DNS vulnerability. Clarified Networks created this visualization of DNS patch deployment over the past month: Red = Unpatched Yellow = Patched,

[Publish Date: August 07, 2008]

Flaky WiFi Update 3: DNS Whackiness and a Workaround - O'Reilly Digital ...

By Todd Ogasawara

Mac OS X Leopard DNS whackiness got to the point where I couldn't get anything done on my Macs. So, I hopped on a Windows PC and did more research. Here's the workaround I found for Leopard's network weirdness.

[Publish Date: March 16, 2008]

Cricket Liu

Cricket Liu is the co-author of all of O'Reilly's Nutshell Handbooks on the Domain Name System, DNS and BIND, DNS on Windows NT, DNS on Windows 2000, DNS on Windows Server 2003, and the DNS & BIND Cookbook, and was the principal author of Managing...

[Publish Date: April 07, 2009]

Speaker: Eric Day: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - 24, 2009, ...

Eric Day works full-time on Drizzle (link: https://www.drizzle.org/) and Gearman (link: https://www.gearman.org/) at Sun Microsystems (link: https://www.sun.com/.) He has been writing high-performance, multi-threaded servers and databases for most of his career, always with an emphasis on efficiency and security. A majority of that time was at Concentric (link: https://www.concentric.com/) where he wrote complete HTTP/SSL, DNS, and IMAP implementations, along with designing and implementing custom storage and database systems. Most of his work has been done in clustered and distributed environments. When not hacking on code, he can be found running, biking, or enjoying a good vegan meal.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

US Judge censors WikiLeaks.org by ordering DNS records removed - O'Reilly Radar

By Jesse Robbins

The BBC and many others report that the international whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.org has been taken down as of this morning. Judge Jeffery White ordered that the WikiLeaks.org domain be removed at the request of Julius Baer Bank & Trust. Not only does the judge order that the site be removed, he orders that the whois privacy protections be turned off...

[Publish Date: February 18, 2008]

Handicapping New DNS Extensions and Applications | O'Reilly Media

Cricket Liu surveys the uptake of five new DNS extensions and applictions: the Sender Policy Framework, IPv6 support, Internationalized Domain Names, ENUM, and the DNS Security Extensions.

[Publish Date: January 11, 2007]

Proposal for securing and distributing management of DNS root servers - ...

By Andy Oram

The integrity of the DNS root servers is clearly critical to our ability to use the Internet.A new series of articles will recommend the use of DNSSEC to help distribute the management of the servers, thus both improving security and reducing the...

[Publish Date: April 02, 2007]

Speaker: David Ulevitch: Velocity - O'Reilly Conferences, June 23 - 24, ...

David Ulevitch is the founder and CEO of OpenDNS, the world's largest and fastest-growing free recursive DNS service. Previously, he founded the EveryDNS authoritative DNS service, today boasting more than 100,000 users. A longtime participant in the anti-phishing, anti-botnet and DNS communities, Ulevitch has been described as "one of the top DNS experts in the world" and was honored by Shadowserver - the public group that works to eliminate Botnets - by being inducted into its Hall of Fame. In addition to his commercial endeavors, he helped start the California Community Collocation Project, a non-profit that provides free, unencumbered Internet services to non-commercial entities. David holds a B.S. in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis.

[Publish Date: June 23, 2008]