Author Archive for Dan York

Watch LIVE Today – RIPE66 Panel On Routing Resiliency

Posted in Events, Routing | Posted on: May 14th, 2013 by | No Comments

In about 90-ish minutes, during the session block from 16:00-17:30 local time in Dublin, Ireland, our Internet Society colleague Andrei Robachevsky will be co-moderating a panel about routing resiliency and anti-spoofing of routes and IP addresses. You can watch and listen live at: https://ripe66.ripe.net/live/main/ As noted in the RIPE 66 Meeting Plan, the panel comes Read more…


Watch LIVE Today – RIPE66 Talk On Best Current Operational Practices

Tags: , | Posted in BCOP, Events | Posted on: May 13th, 2013 by | No Comments
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Curious to know more about what we are interested in doing to help with sharing of best current operational practices (BCOP)? And with getting operator feedback incorporated into the standards process? In about 90 minutes, at 16:00 local time in Dublin, Ireland, our team member Jan Zorz will be presenting on this topic and asking Read more…


DNSSEC and DNS Security Talks At DNS-OARC Spring Forum Streaming Live Out of Dublin Today And Tomorrow

Tags: | Posted in DNSSEC, Events | Posted on: May 12th, 2013 by | No Comments
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Can’t get to Dublin, Ireland, to attend the DNS-OARC Spring Forum 2013 but interested in all the DNS and DNSSEC-related talks?  The good news is that there is a webcast / livestream of the event via Adobe Connect at:  http://icann.adobeconnect.com/dns-oarc/ As I wrote about last week, there are a good number of the talks related Read more…


RIPE66 Next Week: Sessions on IPv6, DNS and Routing

Tags: | Posted in BCOP, DNSSEC, Events, IPv6, Routing | Posted on: May 10th, 2013 by | No Comments
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Next week in Dublin, Ireland, the RIPE 66 Meeting will take place from May 13-17 and a number of Internet Society technical staff will be onsite including two of us from Deploy360: Jan Zorz and myself (Dan York).  The meeting plan has a great number of topics of interest, but two in particular that we’ll Read more…


Excellent DNSSEC Sessions Coming Up At DNS-OARC Spring Forum This Weekend

Tags: , | Posted in DNSSEC, Events | Posted on: May 9th, 2013 by | 1 Comment
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This weekend begins the “Spring Forum” of the Domain Name System Operations Analysis and Research Center, a.k.a. “DNS-OARC” and it once again represents a gathering of many of the prominent people within the DNS / DNSSEC community. The event takes place in Dublin, Ireland, on the Sunday and Monday morning prior to the RIPE 66 meeting happening for the rest of the week.


Packet Pushers Healthy Paranoia Podcast: IPv6 Security Smackdown

Tags: , | Posted in IPv6, Security | Posted on: May 9th, 2013 by | 1 Comment
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Interested in IPv6 security? Back in October 2012, the Packet Pushers podcast had a great show on the topic called “Healthy Paranoia Show 4:IPv6 Security Smackdown!” Guests included many of the people we’ve routinely interacted with about IPv6 at events and on mailing lists: Fernando Gont, security researcher Eric Vyncke, Cisco Distinguished Consulting Engineer and Read more…


RFC 6180 Offers Guidelines for Using IPv6 Transition Mechanisms

Tags: | Posted in IPv6 | Posted on: May 6th, 2013 by | No Comments
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How can you best migrate your network to IPv6? What is the best transition mechanism to use of the many available?  Should you make your network dual-stack? Use tunneling? Go IPv6-only with gateways on the edge? I’ve been asked this question lately by a number of people and unfortunately the answer to what is “best” Read more…


Speaking Live On VUC Podcast About DNSSEC And VoIP/UC on Friday, May 3

Tags: , | Posted in DNSSEC | Posted on: May 2nd, 2013 by | No Comments
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Would you like to chat with me (Dan York) about DNSSEC and DANE and how they might work with voice-over-IP (VoIP) and unified communications (UC)? Or would you just like to listen to my views on the subject? If so, you can join in to the live “VoIP Users Conference (VUC)” conference call / podcast Read more…


Confirmed – Google’s Public DNS Now Performs DNSSEC Validation For ALL Queries By Default

Tags: , | Posted in DNSSEC | Posted on: May 1st, 2013 by | No Comments
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It’s official… Google’s Public DNS service is now performing DNSSEC validation for all DNS queries by default! When news broke back on March 19 that Google had enabled DNSSEC validation on its Public DNS service, there was some initial concern after people noticed that Google was only performing the DNSSEC validation when requested. This led Read more…


Can DNSSEC and DANE Help Make Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications (UC) More Secure?

Tags: , , , | Posted in DNSSEC | Posted on: April 30th, 2013 by | 1 Comment
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Can DNSSEC help make voice and video communications over IP more secure?  Could DNSSEC combined with DANE provide a means to more easily distribute the TLS/SSL certificates needed for VoIP phones and systems?  Can DNSSEC help ensure that you are talking with the correct VoIP system or application server?  Can DNSSEC improve the security of Read more…