A collection of security and infrastructure management groups have launched a new project to help secure DNS queries. Dubbed OpenDNSSEC, the new project will provide a way for service providers and hosting vendors to encrypt DNS traffic.
A fundamental part of everyday internet use, DNS (or Domain Name System) servers allow the text URL addresses to be linked with the machine address of a site's host server.
YouTube confirmed that it now supports IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol, in a blog post published Friday.
"We're proud to make YouTube available over IPv6 and to begin streaming videos from a select number of sites worldwide to our Google over IPv6 partners," wrote Lorenzo Colitti, a Google network engineer. "With YouTube on board, we now have a significant amount of content delivered on IPv6 and a real audience/traffic for it."
An Associate Press (AP) exclusive tells the story of a glitch that allowed AT&T wireless users to log into the Facebook accounts of other users. This glitch was “the result of a routing problem at the family’s wireless carrier, AT&T”.
The internet may have just started out with text, but bandwidth growth has accelerated in recent years as data intensive applications such as video conferencing, video-on-demand, voice over IP, video streaming, and social networking have become more popular.
"Beyond these drivers, we see other applications coming, such as increased-pixel TV and three-dimensional video, that will continue to push the bandwidth curve, not only in the U.S., but around the world," said Mark Wegleitner, Senior Vice President of Technology at Verizon.
Domain Name Security Extensions (DNSSEC) have been implemented in the registry of the .us top-level Internet domain.
Neustar Inc., which has operated the .us registry since 2001, received permission to apply DNSSEC in October and signed the .us zone earlier this month. The company said it will encourage domain name registrars and registrants to incorporate a digital signature via DNSSEC into their domain records in early 2010.
Google has just launched its very own public Domain Name System resolver, with which the company hopes to speed up internet traffic. The search giant claims its DNS is more secure (through protection against cache poisoning attacks) and faster than others.
I'm sure most of you are aware of what the Domain Name System does. When you type in a web address, you expect to be taken to said web address. DNS takes care of that for you by converting the address you typed in into its numerical variant, the IP address, making sure you actually get to the page you typed in.
The FCC is asking for comment on transitioning the circuit-switched phone system – the public switched telephone network (PSTN) – to all IP.
The comments would be used to develop an official notice of inquiry (NOI) that in turn could lead to official government policy under the authority of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA, aka the broadband stimulus bill).
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) this week warned that the current practice of redirecting Internet users to either a third-party Web site or portal when users accidentally misspell a Web address or enter an invalid domain name could "destabilize" the Internet.
The organization documented its disdain for so-called synthesized DNS responses in a draft memo (available here in PDF format) before the introduction of new gTLDs (generic top-level domains) during a board meeting in Sydney in June.
After so many reports about how slow UK broadband really is, this is kinda like rubbing salt into the wound, but we really do need to tell you that Japanese homes are about to get hooked up to 1Gbit/s fibre internet connections from next month.
The first gigabit-class FTTH service in the world will kick off on 1 October and is being offered by telco KDDI. Moreover, the company, which also owns number-two wireless carrier, au, isn't even charging that much for it.
DNS (Domain Name System) is a hierarchical, distributed, autonomous, reliable database. The first and only of its kind, it offers realtime performance levels to a global audience with global contributors. Every TCP/IP traffic flow including every World Wide Web page view begins with at least one DNS transaction. DNS is, in a word, glorious.
