It’s worth pointing out the announcement from the RIPE NCC last week, that they reached the milestone of 10,000 Local Internet Registries (LIRs) having receiving IPv6 addresses. This leaves around 3,000 LIRs that still only have IPv4 addresses, although the uptake of IPv6 addresses has increased substantially since mid-2012. In the way RIPE NCC is structured, the “LIRs” Read more…

In the first part of our blog on testing the Let’s Encrypt certificates for mail servers and adding extra security with DANE TLSA records, we focused on how to deal with the default behaviour of the Let’s Encrypt client on Linux. This generates a new underlying key and certificate request every time we renew the Read more…

Want to learn about DNSSEC and how it helps add a layer of trust to DNS? Puzzled by how this all works?   If so, please join us today from 16:45 to 18:15 UTC for “DNSSEC for Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide” streaming live out of Marrakech, Morocco, in both audio and video on links found off Read more…

Starting this Friday, March 4, I’ll be in Marrakech, Morocco, for a great bit of DNS security discussions at two events: the Africa DNS Forum 2016 and the 55th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). There will be some great introductions to DNSSEC and DANE – and some outstanding technical Read more…

The Internet Society has developed an online tutorial called “Introduction to IPv6” to provide a brief primer for individuals who are interested in better understanding IPv6. The target audiences for this tutorial are recent university graduates, network administrators, network engineers, and other parties with a working knowledge of IPv4 who are looking for a basic Read more…

The Internet Society including Deploy360 was in attendance at APRICOT 2016 which was held from 15-26 February 2016 at the SkyCity Convention Centre in Auckland, New Zealand. This is the annual get together of the network operations community in the Asia-Pacific region, and also incorporates meetings of the APNIC, APStar, APTLD and APIX participants, so Read more…

In its security bulletin, Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) reported on abuse of DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) when mounting a volumetric reflection-amplification attack. This is not news, but I’ll use this opportunity to talk a bit about whether there is a trade-off between the increased security provided by DNSSEC and increased size of DNS Read more…

Kevin Meynell and Jane Coffin from ISOC participated in the PhNOG Conference 2016 which was held on the 25th of January 2016 in Manila, The Philippines. This was organised by the Department of Science and Technology – Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI), in partnership with the Philippine Network Operators’ Group (PhNOG) and the Trans-Eurasia Information Network Network Read more…

Next week sees the start of the APRICOT Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, although the training workshops already kicked off this week. Kevin Meynell from the Deploy360 team will be presenting in a couple of sessions and participating in another, along with other members of the Internet Society’s Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau. APRICOT is the annual Read more…

The 16th edition of one the biggest NOGs in the world, PLNOG is being held from 29 February to 1 March 2016 in Warsaw, Poland, and there are some suggestions that it might hit the 800 attendee mark! As previously announced, I’ll again have the great honour of providing the keynote presentation. Given the excellent technical know-how within the Polish NOG community, Read more…