DNS Fool

Royal Pingdom recently posted a list of wall posters for various Internet/networking related technologies, and included a couple related to DNS.

Domain Name System Map
Top Level Country Code Map

Not quite as distracting as the wall posters that mechanics have, but interesting anyway.

Anders Brownworth has written a nice tutorial for configuring SRV records. SRV records are becoming more popular, especially for use with SIP, so it’s good to see someone writing about them.
Anders has also written an SRV record builder for use with djbdns’s tinydns server. tinydns has a generic record format that can [...]

Two teenage “hackers” take control of comcast.net:
The hackers say the attack began Tuesday, when the pair used a combination of social engineering and a technical hack to get into Comcast’s domain management console at Network Solutions. They declined to detail their technique, but said it relied on a flaw at the Virginia-based domain registrar.
And
The hackers [...]

BIND 9.5.0 has been released. Many, many bugs and security problems have been fixed, and a few new features have been added as well, including:

GSS-TSIG support (RFC 3645).
DHCID support.
Experimental http server and statistics support for named via xml.
More detailed statistics counters, compatible with the ones supported in BIND 8.
Faster [...]

This is just a reminder for those who may not have heard.
BIND 8 was originally scheduled to be end-of-life’d on August 27th, 2007, but after another security issue was announced the ISC agreed to continue supporting it for another year.
That year is almost up though, so if you are still running BIND 8 you now [...]