Event Wrap: HKNOG 5.0
APNIC participated at HKNOG 5.0 in Hong Kong on 15 September 2017.
Tag: DNS
Not rolling the KSK
Why has the DNS Root Zone KSK roll been postponed? Geoff Huston digs into the data to explain.
DNS root server resilience: a smarter way
APNIC is supporting ISC to incorporate code changes to BIND, its open source DNS software, to help reduce the load on DNS root servers.
Dealing with IPv6 fragmentation in the DNS, Part 2
In part two of his IPv6 fragmentation research posts, Geoff Huston turns his attention to measuring the packet drop rate when sending fragmented packets to IPv6 end hosts.
IPv6 anycast possibly done better
Guest Post: After years of being used sparsely for UDP-based services such as DNS, anycasting IP space has become quite a meme in the networking world.
Dealing with IPv6 fragmentation in the DNS
Is IPv6 fragmentation a fixable problem in the DNS, and if so, how?
IETF 99, Prague: There’s a lot going on in the DNS
Interest in the DNS appears to come in waves and we seem to be be in the midst of a furious burst of activity.
IETF 99, Prague: DNSOP considers client (and server) signalling and privacy
Security of the Domain Name System, and privacy, was a topic of much discussion during the recent DNS operations Working Group.
IETF 99, Prague: IEPG — always a worthwhile conversation
IEPG has moved to a new day in the IETF agenda, but it’s still a very useful conversation between the operations and engineering community.
Why isn’t everyone using DNSSEC?
Guest Post: Given how critical DNS is to the Internet, it’s a mystery that much of the world is not prepared to implement DNSSEC.