Tag archive: DNS

Regulating the Internet is turning out to be much more difficult than the federal government anticipated. The E-PARASITE legislation, a bill proposed by Congress that was formerly known as the Senate-backed PROTECT IP Act, has been making the rounds and will attempt to punish copyright infringement–as well as toy with its definitions to a harrowing degree. As one law blog put it, “It’s as though George Lucas came out with the director’s… Read More

According to a new report (PDF) from DNS and online security service provider OpenDNS, social networking site Facebook was the most-blocked site during 2010. In this context, blocking means that OpenDNS customers specifically configured their DNS and security services to prevent their users from connecting, presumably out of security concerns, to prevent people from wasting time at work, or using company or organizational resources… Read More

For the second time in a week, Comcast customers found themselves unable to connect to the Internet. This time, it was Comcast subscribers in the Midwest who had to endure a Sunday evening without being able to use their Internet service. Portions of four states were affected: Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Minnesota.  The outage began around 8:30 PM on Sunday and lasted until around midnight. Comcast apologized for the problem through a… Read More

Although it's barely more than an idea at the moment, Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde has sent another big ripple through the Internet: Sunde has proposed applying the peer-to-peer technology of BitTorrent to the Internet's DNS system, decentralizing domain resolution from the central authority of ICANN's policy-making and collection of root servers and offering an “uncensored” lookup system for the Internet.… Read More

Comcast's Internet service suffered an outage on Sunday that left East Coast subscribers without online access for several hours. Complaints began to surface on Twitter late yesterday evening and appeared to be relegated to subscribers in Boston, Washington, DC, and the surrounding areas. Shortly after reports of the outage began surfacing, some Twitter users began posting workarounds involving switching Domain Name System (DNS) settings.… Read More

The Domain Name System (DNS) flaw discovered by Dan Kaminsky appeared to have been patched, thanks to some rare industry-wide co-operation. But, it seems, that might not be quite the case. ZDNet has reported that security company nCircle has reported problems with the Apple fix for its OS X operating systems, as it fails to randomize ports for client libraries. Their director of security operations, Andrew Storm, blogged:… Read More

Product Description: “The program can be integrated with your Web site for ISP customer sign-up, or it can be a full Web-based DNS solution. It is also a DHCP server, and it comes with a DNS lookup tool. DNS servers translate these domain names into machine readable IP-addresses needed to locate the requested web-server on the Internet. With Simple DNS Plus you can host your own domain name, or simply speed up Internet… Read More